Internet regulators voted to loosen restrictions on internet names, a move that could allow thousands of variations of suffixes beyond the basic .com or .ca. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) overwhelmingly approved the new guidelines on Thursday in Paris after weeklong meetings. The guidelines represent one of the biggest changes to the internet in its 25-year history.New names won't begin appearing for several months and ICANN won't be deciding on specific ones. The organization must decide how much the new domain names will cost. The names are expected to cost over $100,000 apiece to help ICANN cover up to $20 million in costs. The new guidelines could allow for domain names that have been requested, and denied by ICANN, for years, such as .xxx for adult websites and .post for postal service websites. Companies with well-known names like eBay, Apple or Google could also end up requesting domain names if the new rules are approved, snatching up names like .ebay, .mac and .goog.
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Like if you wanted .Gabe3 it would cost you $100,000, then you could charge others to have whatever.Gabe3
Verisign owns the .com TLD
Verisign owns the .com TLD
No, they're just in charge of maintaining it. If I recall correctly, this currently lasts until 2012 or something, nearer that time another company may come along and "outbid" Verisign for the privilege.
Why cant google - just buy the right to "google" for some money and not bother with the whole top level domain...
Also most people just type what they want into search engines now anyway.... the importance of that brilliant domain is being lost.
Yuo will then end up with http://video.google/ http://images.google/
Etc
But hey, I don't the new top level domains as a bad idea... we'll see.
I like typing in .com after many of the sites i visit, having to type in .goog or .mac would slow me down because then I can't just hit Ctrl-Enter to finish the URL. Not if these sites are all going to be switching to unique TLDs.. oh well.
And I wonder what the character limit is, typing anything over 4-5 is way too much. I thought URL's were supposed to be short, memorable, and possibly catchy.
Eh? How much? Why?
gmail.google.gmail
rofl...
Let the new cola wars commence!
And let's not forget .porn, .car, .radio, .paint, .candy, .wire, .tech, .mouse, .carpet, .wood, .air, .fire, .water, .earth, .......
It's more or less a legal way to domain squat, except you squat ALL domains in one go. It's a joke.
They should have just created more TLD's as they were needed - I rarely go to .biz, .info, .mobi or .tv domains as it is.
What's to stop Microsoft buying google.commerce and pointing it to their own servers?
Even if they got into legal crap over that, whats to stop some malware writer from buying paypal.commerce and harvesting username/passwords? The vast majority of people on the internet today don't know what an SSL certificate is.
What's to stop Microsoft buying google.commerce and pointing it to their own servers?
Even if they got into legal crap over that, whats to stop some malware writer from buying paypal.commerce and harvesting username/passwords? The vast majority of people on the internet today don't know what an SSL certificate is.
Besides, theres already enough top level TLD's that this could be an issue anyway and I really can't think of any examples where it has been besides a few small incidents where people have had to hand domains over for trademark reasons.
I really don't see the issue and theres really no reason a company needs every single combination of <company><dot><something>. Given how uncommonly used tld's besides com, net and org are theres even less reason to be concerned.
And actually recognising these domains won't be straightforward. For example on TV or something, if i'm watching the "example show", and I see "example.com", then I know it's their website, but if it says something like "example.example", then i'll just think someone has made a typo on the show.
Every sentence will be an address site
http://dont.look.at.this.or.you.will.puke.I.mean.it.you.will
which will fall under everyones new media for last will and testaments
Digital septic tank....
So I wonder how we will find google?
http://I.need.the.one.point.to.get.my.info
We need geeks, nerds, hackers, and l33t to keep it clean or at least keep the compass clear..but whatever
Your servers will be pounded relentlessly with requests to resolve names and registration of new domain names. And all the syncing stuff going on.
People will be able to create domains such as "http://www.paypal.coms/............" and a lot of people wont notice and just click away.
(its not implemented yet... people should argue against this?)
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