[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;47223843]Generic top level domains shouldn't be privatised, this is stupid.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much all gTLDs are privately owned by just one registry... this is nothing unusual, really, this is how it has been like forever and especially with the "new and hip" gTLDs that ICANN has been allowing the past few years.
ICANN gets a ton of money from the company who wants to have that gTLD and that company gets to sell domains on it for whatever they please, and with whoever they please.
You can usually buy a domain from them though other registries, but those registrars are simply selling them to you as a service, giving pretty much the same amount of money to the main registry.
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;47223843]Generic top level domains shouldn't be privatised, this is stupid.[/QUOTE]
The entire website/domain name ecosystem needs to be (at least partially) rebuilt anyway, IMO.
[QUOTE=Darkwater124;47224049]The entire website/domain name ecosystem needs to be (at least partially) rebuilt anyway, IMO.[/QUOTE]
ICANN is a "nonprofit" whose key people get paid hundreds of thousands per year.
They see their list of new gTLDs on [url]http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings[/url] , and then think about how high the registrar bids are on each of those, especially the more generic and common words...
Sadly I don't see ICANN going away anytime soon, and they will only continue to push out nonsense gTLDs because companies will continue to want their brand as a gTLD, and larger companies will have to continue to buy a domain name from those gTLDs to stop people from using their trademarks. Easy money!
Why is ICANN allowed monopoly nonsense?
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;47223843]Generic top level domains shouldn't be privatised, this is stupid.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, most people would far prefer going to a site that ends in ".com" or ".net" simply due to familiarity and the fact that top level domains that end in specific words seem a bit suspiciously fake-looking regardless of legitimacy.
[QUOTE=The Duke;47226353]To be fair, most people would far prefer going to a site that ends in ".com" or ".net" simply due to familiarity and the fact that top level domains that end in specific words seem a bit suspiciously fake-looking regardless of legitimacy.[/QUOTE]
Old people, maybe.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;47226555]To put in a perspective of how stupid this whole expansion of top level domains, Google owns .meme too and for some reason [url=http://tox.horse/].horse[/url] exists at all[/QUOTE]
Considering that its next to impossible to actually get a good .com domain and .co/.net/.org are a bit shit, it's the next logical step in domains.
People will still prefer .com but having more options isn't a horrible thing.
Trash these retarded domains
Still waiting for .ing
I got beat.blue I thought it'd be a good porn site name
[QUOTE=The freeman;47226672]Considering that its next to impossible to actually get a good .com domain and .co/.net/.org are a bit shit, it's the next logical step in domains.
People will still prefer .com but having more options isn't a horrible thing.[/QUOTE]
All of the various domains I've got are .us
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;47223843]Generic top level domains shouldn't be privatised, this is stupid.[/QUOTE]
google's keeping it open fyi
if amazon had bought it, it would have been closed
so only amazon would be able to allocate them and refuse to offer it
Now sell it to apple for like 10 times the price
this would be a kool gTLD for os x developers to use
[QUOTE=.Lain;47226979]this would be a kool gTLD for os x developers to use[/QUOTE]
Probably why google snagged it.
[QUOTE=.Lain;47226979]this would be a kool gTLD for os x developers to use[/QUOTE]
I think it'd be cool for ANY company with developers.
I'm still really pissed off about what ICANN did with the internet. The old gTLD were nice, but now having actual words in gTLD... it really shits me off.
[QUOTE=DogGunn;47227929]I'm still really pissed off about what ICANN did with the internet. The old gTLD were nice, but now having actual words in gTLD... it really shits me off.[/QUOTE]
I don't see a problem. Many of them are rather useful like .travel .tv and I can't think of any more. If an extension fits your brand it's much cooler than generic .com I feel. I just wish we had a lot more of these and for all of them to cost the same. But a monopoly is a monopoly after all.
I still don't know why the thing to make all porn websites .xxx never passed. I think that'd be sensible/so much easier to find specific porn websites.
[QUOTE=Levelog;47228666]I still don't know why the thing to make all porn websites .xxx never passed. I think that'd be sensible/so much easier to find specific porn websites.[/QUOTE]
The porn websites were worried that ISPs or countries would just block .xxx domains. Putting them all in one place and enforcing it makes it to easy to be blocked.
[QUOTE=Levelog;47228666]I still don't know why the thing to make all porn websites .xxx never passed. I think that'd be sensible/so much easier to find specific porn websites.[/QUOTE]
Because if we talk about freedom, no one should be forced to do something like this. By that logic why not force all organizations on .org and all commerce on .com and nothing else. It's not like there's anything stopping porn sites from using .xxx
This wouldn't be a problem if something was done about mass domain parkers.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;47229077]Because if we talk about freedom, no one should be forced to do something like this. By that logic why not force all organizations on .org and all commerce on .com and nothing else. It's not like there's anything stopping porn sites from using .xxx[/QUOTE]
I guess. I just wish there was more organization on the internet. Like if I type in facebook.xxx I get the porn equivalent of facebook. Or steampowered.xxx for an awesome digital distribution platform for porn games. (Do those really exist?) Is that too much to ask?
[QUOTE=Levelog;47227598]I think it'd be cool for ANY company with developers.[/QUOTE]
os x programs end in .app dude
[editline]28th February 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=Levelog;47229239]I guess. I just wish there was more organization on the internet. Like if I type in facebook.xxx I get the porn equivalent of facebook. Or steampowered.xxx for an awesome digital distribution platform for porn games. (Do those really exist?) Is that too much to ask?[/QUOTE]
that wouldn't exist because those companies would park the domains and let nobody else use them
[QUOTE=.Lain;47230522]that wouldn't exist because those companies would park the domains and let nobody else use them[/QUOTE]
It was a joke.
I thought Apple owned the .app extension. I guess .app domain is separate.
It's a pretty awkward situation, it's like if Apple bought the .exe domain.
[QUOTE=Segab;47234262]I thought Apple owned the .app extension. I guess .app domain is separate.
It's a pretty awkward situation, it's like if Apple bought the .exe domain.[/QUOTE]
Except the word "app" is used to describe a plethora of filetypes, not just .app extensions. Your comparison would make more sense if people referred to all programs on all devices as exe's, but they don't.
[QUOTE=Levelog;47227598]I think it'd be cool for ANY company with developers.[/QUOTE]
it's the .app extension for application bundles so "Safari.app" would be the same url as the filename
so if .app is a thing, can .anything be a thing?
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