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Yeesh...in case there was any doubt beforehand that this is a terrible idea, the initial list is now proof. They have taken something that has a valid technica

Yeesh...in case there was any doubt beforehand that this is a terrible idea, the initial list is now proof. They have taken something that has a valid technical reason to exist and turned it into a cesspool. Hopefully those in control of infrastructure take a stand and simply reject these "domains" entirely. Shouldn't be hard to set up sanity-restoring filters...let us please just pretend these are spam domains and never acknowledge their existence. Ironically anyone vain enough to reserve ".<whatever>" is surely ALSO going to keep a death grip on "<whatever>.com" so this will do nothing to improve the size of the name space.

tucson 14y ago
> this will do nothing to improve the size of the name space It opens new options for "local" addresses: biketour.berlin biketour.paris antics.london etc wether this will stick is another story.
- jerf 14y ago
  biketour.berlin.ge biketour.paris.fr antics.london.uk Nope, there's room for all of those things in the current scheme. Might I add that none of those cities are the only city to have that name, and that the country part carries real information?
  - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    I was gonna say communities like Catalan speakers (.cat) have a good excuse, but then I remembered that ICANN already gave these people their own TLDs.
  - Someone 14y ago
    :-) Your post nicely shows why having a top level domain 'Berlin' could be good idea: without it you would not be able to find those German bike tours. Germany has top level domain de for 'Deutschland'; ge = Georgia (the country)
    - jerf 14y ago
      Fudge, that was just a typo. I did mean de. Too late now. (On Dvorak, d is on h and g is on u, but that's still a bad one.)
goatforce5 14y ago
> Ironically anyone vain enough to reserve ".<whatever>" is surely ALSO going to keep a death grip on "<whatever>.com" Monter (the job people) and Monster (the expensive audio product people) are both going for .monster How do they resolve that? Toss a coin? Auction it?
- user24 14y ago
  It's ICANN! It'll be an auction.
  - scoot 14y ago
    I Can Auction Another Network Name? (Sorry, completely valueless - couldn't resist! :)
    - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
      Apply for .ICANN. Although maybe it's reserved :P
- bbatchelder 14y ago
  I believe they cannot just toss a coin - there has to be an element of skill - so they are using a "digital archery" approach. The user sets a time in the future, and then later must come back and click a button as close to that time as possible. Then users are ranked by the delta between their target time and actual time.

tucson 14y ago

> this will do nothing to improve the size of the name space It opens new options for "local" addresses: biketour.berlin biketour.paris antics.london etc wether this will stick is another story.

jerf 14y ago
biketour.berlin.ge biketour.paris.fr antics.london.uk Nope, there's room for all of those things in the current scheme. Might I add that none of those cities are the only city to have that name, and that the country part carries real information?
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  I was gonna say communities like Catalan speakers (.cat) have a good excuse, but then I remembered that ICANN already gave these people their own TLDs.
- Someone 14y ago
  :-) Your post nicely shows why having a top level domain 'Berlin' could be good idea: without it you would not be able to find those German bike tours. Germany has top level domain de for 'Deutschland'; ge = Georgia (the country)
  - jerf 14y ago
    Fudge, that was just a typo. I did mean de. Too late now. (On Dvorak, d is on h and g is on u, but that's still a bad one.)

goatforce5 14y ago

> Ironically anyone vain enough to reserve ".<whatever>" is surely ALSO going to keep a death grip on "<whatever>.com" Monter (the job people) and Monster (the expensive audio product people) are both going for .monster How do they resolve that? Toss a coin? Auction it?

user24 14y ago
It's ICANN! It'll be an auction.
- scoot 14y ago
  I Can Auction Another Network Name? (Sorry, completely valueless - couldn't resist! :)
  - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    Apply for .ICANN. Although maybe it's reserved :P
bbatchelder 14y ago
I believe they cannot just toss a coin - there has to be an element of skill - so they are using a "digital archery" approach. The user sets a time in the future, and then later must come back and click a button as close to that time as possible. Then users are ranked by the delta between their target time and actual time.