Imagine a web where domains can end in just about any generic top-level domain (new gTLD), e.g. .metafilter. Well, that's soon a
reality:
The organization that oversees the Internet address system is preparing to open the floodgates to a nearly limitless selection of new website suffixes, including ones in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts. That could usher in the most sweeping transformation of the Domain Name System since its creation in the 1980s
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posted by Foci for Analysis
on Jun 18, 2011 -
103 comments
ICANN disses the
the dot. The guy who runs the
Internet Multicasting Service teamed up with the guy who runs the
Internet Software Consortium and submitted a proposal to mange the .ORG registry. ICANN's conslutants [sic]
dumped on the proposal (300KB PDF) claiming it is among the worst proposals
from a technical standpoint. Mind you, ISC produces the software that runs the DNS and actually operates root and top-level servers. And ICANN thinks they lack the technical mojo? Wow! Are we all ready to admit that ICANN is completely corrupt and beyond saving? More info
here. (via
IP)
posted by chipr
on Aug 31, 2002 -
12 comments
The hoopla gets deeper. Upon learning that "Sarah Hubert" was a non-person, registrar
AITDomains simply canceled the registration to hoopla.com, releasing it into the wild, where it was picked up by someone from Taiwan. They gave no notice to Leslie or anyone else that I can tell, so that she had no opportunity to grab the name back for herself.
posted by mikewas
on Jun 11, 2002 -
7 comments
Register International Domain Names such as "http://www.nërd.com", which is actually available. (Note the umlaut on the e.) If you've been looking for an interesting domain name, only to find that they've all been registered, this may be just the ticket.
posted by fnirt
on Jan 4, 2002 -
11 comments
Following the
earlier post regarding cheap domain names, does anyone know anything about .eu.com domains? I've found
one site offering them, but are they actually available yet? What's the story?
posted by Cobbler
on Mar 6, 2001 -
5 comments
New.net lauched today, with their attempt to create their own TLD registrar that seems like a bastardization of DNS. Most people will need to
download a plugin, is there any chance this could be successful? Is ICANN doing anything to stop them or will they just die on their own?
posted by mathowie
on Mar 5, 2001 -
8 comments
Who are these guys? And why have they registered a thousand or more domains, only to have them all point at the same generic portal? I bumped into them three times today while doing searches for
DHTML,
Budd Uggly, and
boxing. No banners, no logo, no company info, and search results are a framed page from goto.com. Strange.
posted by nikzhowz
on Nov 18, 2000 -
12 comments
All of this talk about madonna.com and string.com seems to me to be just a mad scramble to grab a 'scarce' resource (ie. the .com TLD). The only problem is that the scarcity is completely artificial.
Networking expert and lawyer
Karl Auerbach has just been elected to ICANN as the US at-large rep on a platform of reducing ICANN's role from it current one as a overreaching international law making body.
He says that the DNS system is capable of handling far more than just a few top-level domains like .com, .org, .net, .uk, .au etc. He says it could handle
millions.
posted by lagado
on Oct 17, 2000 -
5 comments
Today I was once again reminded why I hate
domain squatters so much. I wanted to find the website for
Scream 3, but
scream3.com is some half-assed hacked site. Every domain with "scream3" in it
seems to be taken (some by Miramax), but none of them resolve to a movie site. The only one that looks halfway official is
in french. Here it is, opening weekend, and there doesn't seem to be an official site up that I can use.
posted by mathowie
on Feb 6, 2000 -
3 comments
