• "The .om (Oman) Domain and the Dangers of Typosquatting"
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[QUOTE=Map in a box;49914310]I can't find anything restricting sitemap URL size, and regardless the point is that there is no limit on URL size, any restrictions like on google doesn't disprove it[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllength.html[/url]
Thats an extraordinarily old source(firefox 1.5? golly). And that still doesn't say anything about sitemap limits.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;49916972]Thats an extraordinarily old source(firefox 1.5? golly). And that still doesn't say anything about sitemap limits.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/FQHXgQk.png[/img] there's no hard limits that i can find right now, but from a UX point of view, there's really no reason to have them that long anyways
[QUOTE=WhyNott;49913995]the .tv domain extension used to belong to some small island, tiviluvia or something, they got loads of money for selling it[/QUOTE] I think that was .tk
[QUOTE=DaMastez;49914883]How would that work though? How is an algorithm going to know what you intended to visit? There's already SSL Certificates that work pretty well, but they don't do anything if people don't check the domain. That's one of the reasons I think URL based autofill is actually a security feature; it won't be confused by a similar name, and that's a great hint that you aren't on the website you want to be. But again, that too requires a degree of savvy to get to that conclusion instead of "stupid autofill, why aren't you working".[/QUOTE] Somewhere along the same lines of knowing that an email you are receiving is coming from Microsoft, or that a transaction you are sending is going to the intended recipient. I think the technology is at least half way there, it more has to do with education than anything else. [editline]12th March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Maloof?;49917467]I think that was .tk[/QUOTE] No it Tuvalu. They generated quite a bit of wealth iirc and it ended up that a majority of the inhabitants are obese which is similar to many other islands in the Pacific Island region. An interesting read about how exports of mutton flaps have contributed greatly to obesity in the region: [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35346493[/url]
[QUOTE=Sableye;49914573]this is the one thing wrong about the internet. the idea was that each country or region would have its own .something, but really it should all be .com/org/gov and thats it because companies now have to buy a domain in every single possible .something[/QUOTE] The problem is that .com .org and .gov (edu, net etc) are all US controlled. On top of that national domains tend to be strongly interest based. seznam.cz may offer different content to seznam.sk, even different languages. What about .at and .de Same language but often different content because austrians and germans look for different content.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;49918275]The problem is that .com .org and .gov (edu, net etc) are all US controlled. On top of that national domains tend to be strongly interest based. seznam.cz may offer different content to seznam.sk, even different languages. What about .at and .de Same language but often different content because austrians and germans look for different content.[/QUOTE] This is what makes the concept of a decentralized TLD (similar to what namecoin provides with the .bit TLD). In this day and age with autonomous companies its entirely possible than more than a few projects will exist which have no central method of control (bitcoin, online gambling sites, file sharing websites, communication services. money exchanges, ebay clones etc) and as such shouldn't really be governed by any country's authority or laws. There is no reason that these can't operate as provably fair services (and if they didn't then they wouldn't have any demand). Really when you look at online gambling and gaming and you see how restrictive some governments are towards it, you can see just how stupid things are.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;49916972]Thats an extraordinarily old source(firefox 1.5? golly). And that still doesn't say anything about sitemap limits.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/7gJ5Vn5.png[/img] ???? [editline]12th March 2016[/editline] [url]http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#urldef[/url]
Honestly something that's pretty bad and isn't properly handled is abuse of punycode and homograph attacks. For example, I own this domain: [url]http://steamcᴏmmunity.com[/url] If you mouse over it most browsers will show the expanded version, but other things wont. Steam hyperlinks this and with the default font it looks exactly the same. Copy-paste it into your browser if you think I played some tricks with vBulletin. It's just abuse of unicode characters in domains.
[url]http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/[/url]
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