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Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)

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Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)

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Post by wamatt »

skrebbel wrote: post #24

Why 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?

You make a great ideological point sir. But let me make a pragmatic one.

The new gTLD's are coming whether we like it or not, so why not take advantage of it?

Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)

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Post by [deleted] »

ojr wrote: post #59
ilikepi wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

javascript is more of the lingua franca of the web

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Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)

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Post by soapdog »

ilikepi wrote: post #45
kingkilr wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because .py is paraguay, .pl is poland, .net is ... whatever.

Sure, but there's no .rb ccTLD, and since 4-, 5-, and 6- letter gTLDs exist, we could certainly have Kickstarter campaigns for .php, .html, .css, .perl, etc. I guess .NET hackers are screwed though.

OMG!!! Imagine the amount of phishing that can be done with a .html TLD... hey access paypal.com.fantastic.promotion.html this would be horrible...

Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)

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Post by namidark »

Camillo wrote: post #40

I 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, th…

Where on earth do you see JS jumping to the kernel? If C++ wasn't cut for it what makes you think JS is?

Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)

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Post by guscost »

skrebbel wrote: post #24

Why 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'm going to start a tiny country called "Jesss," and then get rich! It's a perfect plan!!!

Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)

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Post by lambda »

As many others have pointed out, two character gTLDs are not allowed, as they are reserved for countries and super-national entities like .eu.

Also, Kickstarter is a terrible model for something like this. Kickstarter is for funding a single creative project. People are giving money to someone they trust to be able to execute a project, for that specific project. A gTLD needs to be run, constantly, for the forseeable future; and thus needs to be a real business, with real investment, not a one-shot project like Kickstarter is designed to fund.

Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)

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Post by gojomo »

ilikepi wrote: post #45
kingkilr wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because .py is paraguay, .pl is poland, .net is ... whatever.

Sure, but there's no .rb ccTLD, and since 4-, 5-, and 6- letter gTLDs exist, we could certainly have Kickstarter campaigns for .php, .html, .css, .perl, etc. I guess .NET hackers are screwed though.

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Re: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)

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Post by zeroconf »

skrebbel wrote: post #24

Why 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?

Does the hacker crowd include the person who started the BH conferences? ICANN hired him and he's the one running the technical side of this farce.
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