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Re: Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites

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Post by nikolay » Fri, May 13, 2016, 4:25 AM UTC

soared wrote: post #30

why_is_it_good wrote: post #18

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"now you have to buy" I fail to see why. Do they also have to "secure" a handle in every social media/service/website/platform that allows registration? An email account in every provider? Register their company in every country in the world?

This guy is trolling the whole thread btw.

Not really. You should read more carefully and try harder to comprehend before name-calling and rushing into wrong conclusions. Multiple gTLDs do fragment and confuse and .com will continue to rule as it's short, unambiguous (meaning "a website address" unlike .google, which doesn't mean anything) and people are used to it. Learn from the past! The porn industry that didn't adopt .xxx. Also .info, .biz, .mobi, .tel, .us, .la, and many others in the past didn't pick any adoption - you think longer extensions would? Not to mention the SEO issues with spreading links over a multitude of domains! No to mention that domain names become less and less important - people click links, scan QR codes - don't type URLs in!

Re: Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites

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Post by dingbat1967 » Sat, May 14, 2016, 3:36 PM UTC

As a guy who helps other guys manage mail servers, I regularly see colleagues block these new tlds outright due to being spam domain hell holes.

Re: Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites

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Post by fallenshell » Sun, May 15, 2016, 9:35 PM UTC

nikolay wrote: post #28

fallenshell wrote: post #24

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This sounds more like a troll than a tin-foil hat conspiracist. Ignore it.

You're a troll - a newly created account with virtually no karma! I own thousands of domain names, and I have dealt with hundreds of domain registrars over the course of 20 years. When I say ICANN is a mafia, I know it first hand! I've reported a bunch of fraudulent registrars that stole some of my domains, and they didn't care due to that being a "customer support" issue and ignore all evidence I provided.

Haha keep trying.

Re: Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites

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Post by nikolay » Mon, May 16, 2016, 2:56 AM UTC

fallenshell wrote: post #33

nikolay wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're a troll - a newly created account with virtually no karma! I own thousands of domain names, and I have dealt with hundreds of domain registrars over the course of 20 years. When I say ICANN is a mafia, I know it first hand! I've reported a bunch of fraudulent registrars that stole some of my domains, and they didn't care due to that being a "customer support" issue and ignore all evidence I provided.

Haha keep trying.

I don't care, really. I profit from idiots who buy domains. So, keep buying, please!

Re: Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites

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Post by georgestephanis » Fri, May 20, 2016, 10:14 PM UTC

hobs wrote: post #27

georgestephanis wrote: post #25

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Not a money grab. All $$ paid by the winner of the gTLD are divvied up to the losers of the auction. ICANN isn't just printing money here or pocketing the price.

I dont know where you heard that, because that is not what the ICANN wiki says: https://icannwiki.com/GTLD_Auctions "ICANN condones private auctions, as it has encouraged applicants to resolve contention themselves, presumably through buy-outs, partnerships, and auctions. ICANN offers its own auction model as a last resort. All proceeds from gTLDs auctioned off under ICANN's auction model will go to ICANN as "excess…

Not really. The citation you mentioned above itself says, under "Private Auctions" --

> The winner will pay the amount of the second-highest bid, split either equally or proportionally between the losing applicants

And if you look at the news articles from the time that .blog was auctioned -- like http://domainincite.com/17991-blog-won-in-eight-figure-aucti... -- Minds + Machines, one of the losing bidders, revealed that they had received 3.4 million dollars after pulling out of the bidding for both `.blog` and `.store`

Also, apart from all the above which is public knowledge and there for you to find on your own, I work for Automattic, and when I checked with those who were involved with the .blog purchase, he confirmed that the winning bid was dispersed to the losing bidders. All in all, not a bad consolation prize.