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Posted on 06-26-08 10:05:01 PM

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I fail to see the point in this, do companies really need custom TLD suffixes?

I think it's fine as it has been up until now, I even feel that we already have a lot of suffixes that are just unnecessary as it is ((ab)using .tv for television things, or .info or whatever)

The pricing of over $100k for one seems odd to me, too, but I guess it'll prevent random people from messing with these new guidelines..

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Posted on 06-26-08 10:25:25 PM

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This can only end badly down the line when it falls in price.

Pishing abound.

Pointless TLDs.

Making harder to remember where thigns are on the internet. Was that .Xwa? or .Xma?

I could just be a bit negative about this.

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Posted on 06-26-08 10:32:24 PM

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.com (commerce), .org (organization)

Those suffixes have never stood for what they're actually supposed to stand for, they're just generic internet suffixes (maybe in the early history of the internet...).

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Posted on 06-27-08 12:57:27 AM

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Originally posted by Darkdata
Making harder to remember where thigns are on the internet. Was that .Xwa? or .Xma?

Was it .com? .org? .net? .info? Perhaps it was in another country-- .co.uk, .co.ca?

(Also: The article specifically mentions that the arbitrators can resolve domain squatting incidents. I could imagine they could deal with phishing sites.)

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Posted on 06-27-08 01:35:40 AM

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I think this is just the first step in converting those oh-so-cumbersome and old-fashioned URLs into something akin to AOL keywords.

"What was the address again?"

"johnsawesomepokemonsite!"

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Posted on 06-27-08 01:15:31 PM

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Posted on 06-27-08 01:50:46 PM

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Originally posted by Skreeny
Originally posted by Darkdata
Making harder to remember where thigns are on the internet. Was that .Xwa? or .Xma?
Was it .com? .org? .net? .info? Perhaps it was in another country-- .co.uk, .co.ca?

But at least without the custom tlds, there's a list to try and we know that one of them will eventually work. I don't want to try an infinite number of suffixes if I forget.

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Posted on 06-27-08 11:12:10 PM

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Well there shouldn't be that much of a problem. You can:
• search google
• check browser history
• type in part of the url into the address bar and look at the auto-complete options
Between those three, the issue will rarely, if ever, come up at all.

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Posted on 06-28-08 01:06:24 AM

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I think a lot of the problem will be resolved simply because
- They're not something you can just buy; they have to be reviewed first
- They cost $100,000
- It has to be a big-name corporation, random Joe Nobody can't go buying one

Among this, from what I got out of it, they have to be able to do everything associated with a TLD, not just buy a name.

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Posted on 06-28-08 03:09:56 AM (last edited by Supakitsune at 06-28-08 12:10 AM)

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Interesting... Perhaps now the .nyc top-level domain will come to pass.

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Posted on 06-28-08 06:12:58 PM

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Originally posted by "theregister.co.uk"
Some of the official domains for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) were temporarily under the control of a group that calls itself NetDevilz, according to zone-h, which tracks hijackings of individual websites. Specific domains that were hijacked included "icann.com," "icann.net," "iana.com" and "iana-servers.com."

Wonder if it was done by social-engineering or a flaw?

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