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I am th only one who hate the idea of generic top-level domains? Will their web site be accessible just as http://.canon http://.canon? .

• Legion 17y ago
  Yes, but it will redirect. It won't be canonical.
  • sjs382 17y ago
    I see what you did there...
    • ryanwanger 17y ago
      Looks like I accidentally ended up at Reddit...
• durana 17y ago
  There's nothing technical DNS-wise that would prevent the name 'canon' from resolving to an IP address, so http://canon http://canon could work. They could also add a MX record for the name 'canon' so @canon e-mail addresses would work too. Maybe ICANN has rules around gTLDs that would prevent this type of use?
  • rbranson 17y ago
    I'm sure this will break a ridiculous number of regular expressions for email address validation.
    • jedberg 17y ago
      Yes, but that is their own fault for trying to use a regex to validate email addresses. :)
      • atlbeer 17y ago
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  • reconbot 17y ago
    regardless of the rules there are a few tlds that route mail and resolve to websites. http://to./ http://to./ comes to mind, but there are a few others.
• codexon 17y ago
  Its a domain squatter's dream come true.
  • JacobAldridge 17y ago
    Or is the end (eventually) for the squatting game? When there are hundreds or thousands of alternatives for xyz.com, won't that seriously diminish the worth of any one in particular?
    • blogimus 17y ago
      Doesn't matter. Most will be found by Google search.
      • rayval 17y ago
        it is not a domain squatter's dream come true, it is the DNS bureaucracy cabal's dream come true. It has little value for users/consumers (i.e., won't remember if they want canon.com or canon.canon). It has little value for businesses, because it means more time and money monitoring for domain squatting and trademark infringement. It provides yet another playing field for scammers and other predators. The only benefit is to the upper levels in the DNS hiearchy, gives them more revenue to perpetuate themselves and to come up with more user-hostile ideas.
        • blogimus 17y ago
          I agree, and as I said, it really doesn't matter. The vast majority of people are going to get what they need through Google, and to a lessor extent, the other search engines.
        • codexon 17y ago
          It has little value for users/consumers (i.e., won't remember if they want canon.com or canon.canon). Actually if you buy an arbitrary top level domain, there will be no more .com. Instead it will be .google, .apple or .hackernews
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• anigbrowl 17y ago
  I don't hate it, indeed I like the idea of.anigbrowl or so :-) I think domain names themselves are transient, in recent years I find myself doing things like searching for 'Canon camera' and letting Chrome and Google take care of the routing. This post automatically generated by Google.com in response to inarticulate mumblings by user anigbrowl
• jonny_noog 17y ago
  No you're not. I'm still getting over the trauma of .info, .tv et al.
• derefr 17y ago
  http://canon./ http://canon./, rather. Like http://to./ http://to./ Most lesser-known TLDs with a central registrar already do this by giving themselves the www.TLD. record; for example http://www.tv/ http://www.tv/ or http://www.name/ http://www.name/. When you try just "tv./" or "name./" in your browser, it'll try those as well, without having to muddy up the main record.
  • loup-vaillant 17y ago
    I thought the dot was a separator. Why do we have to have one at all? Why the canonical URL shouldn't be http://cannon/  http://cannon/ ?
    • derefr 17y ago
      http://canon/ http://canon/ would refer to whatever canon was local to your gateway's DNS host record (I believe; I can't find the exact term for it.) For example, my computer is d207-6-247-238.bchsia.telus.net. If I type "canon" into anything that calls gethostbyname(), it assumes I mean canon.bchsia.telus.net. When that doesn't resolve, then it tries "canon." http://canon./ http://canon./, on the other hand, refers to the "canon" that is located at the "root directory" of the internet—that is, ".". Most addresses don't need this, because once you specify any more than a host name, it assumes the rest of the domain "path" is a fully-qualified DNS record, and doesn't bother checking your local network for it.
• Saavedro 17y ago
  Actually http://canon./ http://canon./ (http://canon/ http://canon/ would also work in rare cases (No DNS search domain set and the browser also doesn't try to interpret it as a keyword.))