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It seems like 1 part extortion, 1 part destruction of a free internet, and 1 part orchestrated gold rush for squatters.
The application fees were $5k registration + $185k or $47k evaluation, so they collected something between $100 million and $366 million dollars, annual fees excluded.
I can see two possible outcomes:
1. all conflicts are resolved by agreements/bidding, process goes smoothly. But usage nevers picks up, and in a years'time it's all money down the drain.
2. ICANN backpedals and decides to cancel this stupid idea, while deciding to (legally) keep the application fees. Fighting ensues and we get a new, better management organization. Or worse.
Google wants: .ads, .and, .android, .app, .are, .baby, .blog, .boo, .book, .buy, .cal, .car (no .cdr?), .channel, .chrome, .cloud, .corp (great way to snoop on poorly configured intranets), .cpa, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dds (New: Google Dentist!), .dev, .diy, .docs, .dog, .dot, .drive, .earth, .eat, .esq, .est, .family, .film, .fly, .foo, .free, .fun, .fyi, .game, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .gmbh (really?), .goo, .goog, .googl…
I'm curious why some of those rows are colored blue (IDN, KIDS, UMMAH). I also wonder what effect this will have on domain squatting (probably very little, all told). Anyone have any favorites? I see .DOT (dot.dot, anyone?), .WINNERS, .SUCKS (more desirable than .SEX), .NINJA, .MATRIX (registered by L'Oreal rather than HP, sadly), .IRA (financial planning and domestic terrorism in one convenient location), and absolu…
I'm surprised the US government didn't go for .dot, as in Department of Transportation. You could replace www.michigan.gov/mdot with mi.dot.
What happens when several companies want the same one? There's a whole bunch of companies going for .app, so who gets which domains?
Yeesh...in case there was any doubt beforehand that this is a terrible idea, the initial list is now proof. They have taken something that has a valid technical reason to exist and turned it into a cesspool. Hopefully those in control of infrastructure take a stand and simply reject these "domains" entirely. Shouldn't be hard to set up sanity-restoring filters...let us please just pretend these are spam domains and n…
It opens new options for "local" addresses: biketour.berlin biketour.paris antics.london etc
wether this will stick is another story.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
.localdomain would be better.
Also .local "Despite not being a valid top-level domain in the Internet, considerable DNS traffic that queries the local domain exists in the public Domain Name System.[1] In June 2009, the L root server received more than 400 such queries per second,[2] ranking 4th in DNS traffic of all TLDs after COM, ARPA, and NET." [1] Scary potential for mischief-making. Hopefully ICANN would reject applications for these domain…
How much do those cost again? A nice cash grab by the ICANN I presume.
Google wants: .ads, .and, .android, .app, .are, .baby, .blog, .boo, .book, .buy, .cal, .car (no .cdr?), .channel, .chrome, .cloud, .corp (great way to snoop on poorly configured intranets), .cpa, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dds (New: Google Dentist!), .dev, .diy, .docs, .dog, .dot, .drive, .earth, .eat, .esq, .est, .family, .film, .fly, .foo, .free, .fun, .fyi, .game, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .gmbh (really?), .goo, .goog, .googl…
"Guge" is apparently the name by which "Google wants to be known in China."[1] [1]: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/guge.html