new domain name system
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- qoob
"The great Internet name rush has begun. By this time next year, more than a thousand new top-level domains—such as .blog, .cloud, .lol, and .foo—could be added to the Internet’s name space. And companies and individuals could be rushing to snap up domain names to either extend their Web presence or—in the case of domain names like .lol and .sucks—save themselves from ridicule."
- albums0
google wants . om .dad .kid While amazon wants .book & .movie
these are going to be a hassle & only profitable to those who can afford the tld in the first place
- drgs0
what is the point of domains, except maybe for country-specific domains
Is it technically impossible to have addresses like
http://qbn/
http://arstechnica/
?
- i_monk0
And if you want to buy coke.foo or coke.sucks or coke.binge, Coca-Cola will sue your ass. There's no point to all of these TLDs. Hell, there's no point to .net or .org.
- vaxorcist0
the greatest $ for the smallest number... i.e. ICANN cashes in on the paranoia...
- stepson0
According to http://ntldstats.com/ there are just under 800,000 of these new TLDs registered..
Has anyone actually seen any decent companies using them? Or seen any decent domain search sites that crawl them?
Full list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
- i_monk0
The only one I've seen in the wild is peru.travel
- set0
- autoflavour0
the porn ones will be the best..
.anal
.fist
.gape
- detritus0
.london is being fairly heavily pushed here in ..well, London.
- set0
such.camera
- set0
- utopian0
.rip is needed for all of the QBN threads
- set0
Still waiting for .hq
- Krassy0
.qbn
- moldero0
pitty.foo