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"whoever gets .www is going to make a killing" I think that they'd have to make an exception for historical reasons, and simply pre-register "www.". (This kin
by makecheck 16y ago
"whoever gets .www is going to make a killing"
I think that they'd have to make an exception for historical reasons, and simply pre-register "www.". (This kind of reservation is not unprecedented; "example.com" and similar names are off-limits, according to the original RFC 2606.) So "www." could be introduced as a giant no-op in the modified domain name system, and browsers would simply learn to ignore it.
- jarek 16y agoThis would also mark the first time the first version of Netscape will be unable to load www.google.com. Backwards compatibility on the internet is a pretty big thing.
- Sidnicious 16y agoI kid. It's not going to be www, but whichever domain or set of domains is easy to type, sells subdomains for cheaps, and is aggressive about spam control will win. It might be worthwhile for ICANN to make three-and-fewer character names off-limits to private registration.