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It's polluting the namespace. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It's quite simple.
by dekken_ 4y ago
It's polluting the namespace.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
It's quite simple.
- systemvoltage 4y agoSo you must be against all GTLDs, not just .bestbuy right? They're all polluting the namespace. It shouldn't matter who bought it, "pollution" or whatever that constitutes, still exists?
- dekken_ 4y agoI am frankly, it's an abuse of power that's forced on the populace without recourse.
- UncleEntity 4y agoSomebody forces you to click on bestbuy links and shop in their stores? Are they in the room right now?
- DangitBobby 4y agoI am anticipating exciting new phishing attempts from customers of unscrupulous registrars on everything from apple.comp to zoom.uss
- bogwog 4y agoI doubt it's that easy to pull something like that off. And besides, people fall for phishing scams even when the domain name isn't even close to what they're trying to imitate.
- unethical_ban 4y agoWhy are TLDs so special? Why are the few known private TLDs (com/net/edu/gov, etc) so important, how are they so special that it is valuable to society to keep them limited? I think the everyday person doesn't even understand that google.com is a little endian hierarchy.
- darig 4y ago
- forgotpwd16 4y agoWhat does "polluting the namespace" even mean? Is getting a new domain polluting the namespace? Maybe shutdown the web and have only a single site to be more cyberenvironment friendly?
- mdmglr 4y agoHow is this polluting?
- selfmodruntime 4y agoThis isn‘t polluting anything, this is a new namespace entirely
- sodality2 4y agoPolluting the gTLD namespace, I suppose. Though I have zero thoughts on the matter personally.
- pyrolistical 4y agoThis is a good use of namespace. No other global trademark should ever get this TLD
- dekken_ 4y agoOr no other trademark should get any TLD maybe? Corporations are not the owners of the the internet.
- KyeRussell 4y agoOkay, let’s not let “corporations” buy domain names at all then. The difference between foo.bestbuy and foo.bestbuy.com is cultural, namely that you personally are used to one but not the other. Corporations are as much the owners of the internet as they have been for…decades. The registries for .com and .net are operated by publicly-listed billion-dollars-in-revenue-earning Verisign. The majority of the internet’s underlying infrastructure is owned by for-profit entities that are in it to make money from you. The reality is that the commercialisation of the Internet is the only reason that you or I or venture capitalist plaything Hacker News are all even here at all. ICANN just found a way to extract buckets of money from brand-obsessed companies for essentially just adding a line to a database. It’s hilarious and I challenge you to point out how this itself is affecting the openness of the Internet in any tangible way.
- zokier 4y agoOf course it is also notable that the whole DNS hierarchy was managed by Network Solutions, with even less oversight, before ICANN was established.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- ncpa-cpl 4y agoCanon is another one that has their own gtld https://global.canon/en/ https://global.canon/en/
- nerdbert 4y agoIs it any different from them "polluting" the .com namespace previously?