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The article comes across quite ranty. This is rather unfortunate because it may distract, from an otherwise important message: Why should corporations be grant
by wamatt 12y ago
The article comes across quite ranty. This is rather unfortunate because it may distract, from an otherwise important message:
Why should corporations be granted permission to carve off valuable and generic domain mindshare for their own agendas?
One could argue "You couldn't register .blog or .dev before, and now you can't either, so whats the problem?"
Well, the issue would seem to be that it's reducing the possibility space for everyone. Indeed, there are other competing applications that would in the future be open to all, but will not come to pass, if this closed corporate capture goes ahead.
One last point to consider, why can't Google apply for .googdev or .googblog?
- username223 12y ago> One last point to consider, why can't Google apply for .googdev or .googblog? Or just give them ".goog", and every corp gets its stock symbol as a TLD.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> One last point to consider, why can't Google apply for .googdev or .googblog? They can (or, rather, could have when the window was open for new gTLD apps.) Anyone who had the money to put down could apply for anything they want. (I'm guessing they applied for .dev because they are already using it internally for much the purpose that they describe, so given the probability that someone will pick it up for some purpose, the least disruptive thing for them is to pick it up as a closed domain.)