Can anyone else hear that? The sound of Tim Berners-Lee crying to himself, "What have they done to you? You were once so clean and pure."
Nay, it is not Berners-Lee that is crying, it's Paul Mockapetris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mockapetris
Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
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Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
#32I think this would only be worthwhile if you could do this:
The WHATWG should just introduce a new element that automatically pulls the latest version.
Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
#33Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
#34200K for what is essentially a custom domain name? Absolutely not worth it.
Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
#35Why do we even think about this? Custom TLDs are a farce, a way to shake companies and nonprofits out of money without any added value, neither technologically, nor in terms of marketing/communication. Everybody knows that, right? Didn't we all conclude that when the ICANN announced it? Aren't "we", the hacker crowd, supposed to be above this?
I agree. Further, regarding this bit from the "Why?" section of the README:
> Okay, this is kind of a vanity TLD, but we freaking build the web every day... Shouldn't we have a TLD that JS hackers control?
Why are "JS hackers" being targeted specifically? Why not also Ruby, Python, PHP, .NET, and Perl hackers? Why not also HTML and CSS hackers? Why not also designers (.psd perhaps)? Why not dozens of new TLDs so that everyone could have a domain with the file extension of their choosing?
I'll tell you why: because arbitrarily polluting the top-level namespace is something we learn not to do.
Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
#36Why do we even think about this? Custom TLDs are a farce, a way to shake companies and nonprofits out of money without any added value, neither technologically, nor in terms of marketing/communication. Everybody knows that, right? Didn't we all conclude that when the ICANN announced it? Aren't "we", the hacker crowd, supposed to be above this?
Couldn't agree with you more. I can't even fathom how ludicrous this idea is. What possible reason is there for a language to have a TLD?
Let's make custom TLDs for .py, .java, .c, .h, .php... really? Really?
Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
#37While it would be cool to have a .js TLD, that 200k would be better spent developing a system that doesn't revolve around a centralized entity to manage DNS.
Good point. Or that 200k would be better spent in an X Prize style contest for a better JavaScript web framework.
Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
#38Why do we even think about this? Custom TLDs are a farce, a way to shake companies and nonprofits out of money without any added value, neither technologically, nor in terms of marketing/communication. Everybody knows that, right? Didn't we all conclude that when the ICANN announced it? Aren't "we", the hacker crowd, supposed to be above this?
This is exactly why I both love and fear the power of Kickstarter. It enables half-thought out ideas (claimed as "projects") to have a way to sucker good people out of their money.
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Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
#40I don't know why people are so eager to shoot this down. I think it's perfectly feasible. So what if two-letter TLDs are reserved for countries? JavaScript has already made the jump from the browser to the server (and, soon, to the kernel): the world map is the logical next step. Yes, I am talking about a real-world JavaScript nation, whose banner shall unite web 2.0 ninjas, wizards and pirates (not the rockstars, though, those use Ruby) from all over the world. And the children of this new utopia shall be taught JavaScript as their native language, fulfilling mankind's age-old ideal of JavaScript Everywhere.