That's odd - I haven't seen my daily American Family Association action alert complaining that .xxx domains will lead to more porn on the internet and I should call someone to complain.

/opens up porn

Cythraul: I wish I could do that. Alas, I'd get fired.

One of the many benefits of working from home.

More TLDs means more problems. That's about it.

Saw this a few days ago...

Link

"Both the US drugmaker Merck & Co and its German rival Merck KGaA appear to have applied for the .merck ending, which may trigger an auction process."

FFS, WHY do you want a TLD of your company name?? Are you going to have http://www.merck.merck? Or maybe triple down and be at http://merck.merck.merck.


Sometimes I think the people who request/buy these things really don't understand them.

GanjSmokr: FFS, WHY do you want a TLD of your company name?? Are you going to have http://www.merck.merck? Or maybe triple down and be at http://merck.merck.merck.

http://merck

this is how the internet ends.

You want access to .business websites? You pay a subscription fee to your ISP. You want .xxx access? You pay a subscription fee.

This is how it happens, we stopped paying for cable TV packages, so they moved into the internet.

I worked on the TLD launch for .tel.

Yeah, no one has ever heard of it.

To recap:

Fark ICANN. Fark cybersquatters. ICANN runs a walled-garden.

We never really had a problem with too few TLD to choose from, though squatters hording short domain names has been a nuisance. Now that they're vetting nearly a thousand more TLD, we may as well throw in the towel and just register *any* 256-character string to associate with an IP address. Noone types in URLs any more! We just click on links. Noone hunts for a good home by trying "homes.com, homes.org, homes.net". The .shark has been .jumped.

What we need is a service like OpenDNS which, instead of blocking certain ICANN-formatted sites, allows us to resolve additional non-ICANN-formatted sites. That's sure to make ICANN all huffy, but what can they object to?

ICANN can't stop us from editing our HOSTS file to add handy URL shortcuts. ICANN can't tell a household or company not to set up such shortcuts on their intranet. ICANN can't stop us from outsourcing our shortcuts to a 3rd-party nameserver. ICANN can't stop us from opting-in to a community that shares shortcuts. ICANN can't stop a hypothetical company like "NowUCANN.com" from letting folks pay a dollar a year to publicly associate "http://FarkIsAnEuphemism" with an IP address. It would basically just be a new twist on a URL-shortener. Oh, and it would put ICANN in sharp perspective.

We're not quite down to clownpenis.fart level, but we'll get there eventually at this rate.

Austinoftx

ICANN can't stop a hypothetical company like "NowUCANN.com" from letting folks pay a dollar a year to publicly associate "http://FarkIsAnEuphemism" with an IP address.

Hopefully the grammar police would step in though.

WayToBlue: Austinoftx

ICANN can't stop a hypothetical company like "NowUCANN.com" from letting folks pay a dollar a year to publicly associate "http://FarkIsAnEuphemism" with an IP address.

Hopefully the grammar police would step in though.

EXCELLENT JOB, ICANN mole!

Now, all idea sharing will come to a shrieking halt as the comments disintegrate into a quarter mile long flame thread about grammar...

Austinoftx: Now, all idea sharing will come to a shrieking halt as the comments disintegrate into a quarter mile long flame thread about grammar...

Why? Your grammar was just wrong, there isn't really any debate on it.

/ and so it begins

Fark it, if I can get sparkle.unicorn, I'm going for it.

Setting http://splinshints.clownpenis.fart to route to a popular goat-related site now...

gingerjet: GanjSmokr: FFS, WHY do you want a TLD of your company name?? Are you going to have http://www.merck.merck? Or maybe triple down and be at http://merck.merck.merck.

http://merck

It wouldn't surprise me at all if that's what they thought they were actually buying.

GanjSmokr: Saw this a few days ago...

Link

"Both the US drugmaker Merck & Co and its German rival Merck KGaA appear to have applied for the .merck ending, which may trigger an auction process."

FFS, WHY do you want a TLD of your company name?? Are you going to have http://www.merck.merck? Or maybe triple down and be at http://merck.merck.merck.


Sometimes I think the people who request/buy these things really don't understand them.

Probably true since most are registering in order to protect their brand. I guess competitors having $185k + annual fees just to mess with your trademark is a real threat.

Or else there is a real belief they can use it for branding - all ads will end with "Go to http://merck/drugname to learn more!"

/which will all redirect to merck.com...

Damnit ICANN, switching from a hierarchical (or semi-hierarchical) namespace to a flatter namespace is a bad idea.

Cythraul: I wonder if they'll make more specific domain extensions for porn like .penis, or something along those lines?

.geriatriconeeyedasianshemaletripleamputees

I want a dot tld so I can have ellipses.dot

www.dot.dot

www....

dub dub dub . . . .

.moot

DNS is obsolete. It belongs in a .museum.

NewWorldDan: Fark it, if I can get sparkle.unicorn, I'm going for it.

twilight.sparkle

?

Ivo Shandor: DNS is obsolete. It belongs in a .museum.

No, Ivo Shandor, you do!

.bj
.anal

WayToBlue: More TLDs means more problems. That's about it.

waiting for somebody to register the ".ᴄᴏm" domain.


Farking Unicode.

Austinoftx: WayToBlue: Austinoftx

ICANN can't stop a hypothetical company like "NowUCANN.com" from letting folks pay a dollar a year to publicly associate "http://FarkIsAnEuphemism" with an IP address.

Hopefully the grammar police would step in though.

EXCELLENT JOB, ICANN mole!

Now, all idea sharing will come to a shrieking halt as the comments disintegrate into a quarter mile long flame thread about grammar...


Not sure if you're seriously that paranoid, or just joking. You did sound a bit hysterical to begin with, so I'm leaning toward "yes"...

This is the most popular request, with 13 corporations fighting over these three letters like Irish setters with an English muffin.

I thought that said "Irish settlers" at first.

/It's funnier my way.

bmongar: I want a dot tld so I can have ellipses.dot

That reminds me of a domain name I've been meaning to register: aych-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-com. Say it out loud, it's hilarious!

/Nobody has ever been this clever.

Let there be www.fark.xxx