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The biggest change in DNS since Dot-Com
- ifearthenight 15y agoJust allow me to free up a few assets so I can afford to apply :) Doesn't the whole concept of having to pay large amounts of money just to apply to maybe register a new TLD feel a little bit against some of the original ideas behind the "World Wide Web"?
- mjwalshe 15y agoYou do know what the cost of the prevous round of tlds was > £1,000,000. Btw I used to be one of the owners of .coop :-)
- statictype 15y agoThis seems like kind of a big deal. I'm surprised I'm only hearing of this now. I guess the price creates a big enough barrier for most people?
- hessenwolf 15y agoThe biggest winners from this are search engines. URLs will just be ignored in future.
- est 15y agomaintaining an up-to-date TLD list must be problematic from now on.
- __alexs 15y agoWhy would you do that yourself? IANA publish one http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
- nodesocket 15y agoFood for thought; prepare for all e-mail validation regular expressions to start failing `johnny@friskies.lolcats`. As if the regular expression already wasn't complicated enough: http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html