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I find it sort of amusing that Google is interested in the ".lol" TLD, especially when the post is authored by Vint Cerf. While I have my doubts about how much
by callmevlad 14y ago
I find it sort of amusing that Google is interested in the ".lol" TLD, especially when the post is authored by Vint Cerf. While I have my doubts about how much of an impact the new TLDs will make in the domain market, it's nice to see things shaking up a bit. Almost like the discovery of a new continent in the real world, with only rich people being able to get to it their fancy helicopters.
Also makes me wonder if this trend continues and leads to a TLD-less type of keyword DNS system at some point, where typing "facebook" in the address/awesome bar takes me directly to Facebook (versus some intermediate search page).
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoThe problem with TLD-less system is that we already have mismatches of site names with different TLDs. Facebook is great a example of one that would work. But let's say you have callmevlad.com and I have callmevlad.net. With the TLD-less system, who gets the traffic when someone puts "callmevlad" in the Awesome Bar? All those conflicts would need to be resolved before this would work. Maybe it should have been that way from the start but I think it is too late to make that kind of switch. You can't get poop back into a horse without making a big mess.
- callmevlad 14y agoI'm not saying that there won't be any issues, but given that there is obvious demand for ~$200K TLDs, I wouldn't be surprised if someone started to push it. And (currently) putting things into the Awesome Bar either a) detects a domain and goes there or b) goes to an intermediate step: the search engine. I'm pretty sure some browsers do an intermediate DNS lookup before going to the search engine. So I'm not sure if there would be a conflict - if I was first to register "callmevlad" to point to some IP that I control, typing that in always goes to my site.