Fuck ICANN for pimping out the internet to make a quick buck. We need to replace them with an organization that is truly neutral and not for profit.
I bought netflix.soy
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#82Does anyone aggregate access to all 1500 TLD's? Is there a guide available on which combination of registrars to use to query them all?
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#83Those domains can easily be seized by the respective companies, which is a bigger problem imo.
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#84"Did you know it costs a minimum of $185,000 to create your own domain name ending? For that kind of money, I think ICANN, the registries and registrar sites have a massive responsibility to ensure that this never happens." No they don't. The same problem exists with subdomains, for example some users may visit "netflix.trustworthy-sounding-domain.com" and not notice the issue. Meanwhile, using a weird TLD can raise…
netflix.trustworthy-sounding-domain.com isn't really the same though. If I own netflix.trustworthy-sounding-domain.com, I can create facebook.trustworthy-sounding-domain.com, google.trustworthy-sounding-domain.com, etc simply by creating new DNS records. No one but myself is involved, or even know they exist (unless I put links to them somewhere public).
On the other hand, someone owns and operates .soy, and has to actually approve new domains getting created. Part of that process could be a step that automatically screens for scammy looking registrations.
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#86> Truthully, I think its pretty bad that I was able to do this. It is not. The explosion of TLDs is bad. It's simply a racket. But, Google supported it. So if they happen to suffer some of the consequences... so be it.
Explosions of TLDs is bad!? Why?. It got rid of impossible to buy good sounding and short names, largely massive multi million dollar companies holding onto them.
Explosions of TLDs literally has absolutely no downsides besides the security and phishing implications. It just wiped out the domain mafias and replaced it with a massive competitive marketplace.
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#87Interestingly, I recently saw a couple a couple of google.* domains available on Google Domains, including some reasonable-sounding ones: IIRC, google.tech (edit: google.page), google.business, and google.camp. Tried to purchase them but they instantly became unavailable the moment I tried to do so. The cynic in me thinks that Google has a special check for those and renews it themselves if someone tries… More genera…
Companies like Mark Monitor will buy all of the .tld's for you-- and continually grab new ones (as the set of TLDs is constantly growing). At Netflix's size, I would assume they would've paid for such a service.
Could someone register a tld and charge a crazy amount of money for it, to extort big companies?
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
.קום is just .com transliterated into Hebrew letters, right? That actually seems quite useful, if people are typing not realizing the keyboard is set to Hebrew.
That would only work if the Hebrew keyboard layout they were using had this mapping of letters. Most language layouts for non-Roman scripts don't optimize for phonetically approximating the corresponding English letters (presumably on a QWERTY layout). It appears that they don't match to the TLD letters here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_keyboard
That's correct. Typing 'com' with the keyboard set to Hebrew results in 'בםצ' (which is not even pronounceable) not 'קום'.
The Hebrew keyboard layout has no relation to QWERTY in terms of phonetics.
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#89> Did you know it costs a minimum of $185,000 to create your own domain name ending? If I were a blackhat with money, I'd register the ".con" TLD. ... Sure hoping a whitehat gets it first.
At least it would be self-descriptive! :D
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#90There's a terrible enterprise security product that can be configured by IT to quasi-MITM your company web traffic. Instead of relying on enterprises pushing their own trusted root certs and MITMing the whole session this terrible product redirects all traffic to (and I'm not kidding here) urls like "www.terriblesecuritycompanyname.com/www.originalurl.com" when the user accesses www.originalurl.com. So this "enterpri…
It depends on which ethical framework you subscribe to, but if I were in your shoes using my ethical framework, it seems like the small cost to me to purchasing an available domain (making the assumption here it's a standard buy and it's not one of those "make an offer for $10k" domains...) to mitigate a lot of potential hurt to other people would make me lean toward just purchasing the domain myself, or at least making the correct people aware. An equally valid counterexample would be a framework where you didn't cause the harm, so you have no obligation to intervene.