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Comment Re: Jerri (Score 4, Informative) 533

If you really want to understand the connection between ISIS, Afghanistan and Saudi Wahabism that makes this all a little bit less mysterious, have a look at Adam Curtis' film "Bitter Lake". It's an bit of an eye opener to put it mildly.

The Saudis are the fount of all discontent in the middle east. And oil which is why the US lets them literally get away with murder.
Watch the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As to the comments about the liberal left, keep in mind one of Curtis previous fils, "The Power of ightmares" explored the tight iterlatationshpi between the new American right and Islamist fundamentalists. They are in fact one in the same.

Comment Re:You mean CIA is taking over new TLD's (Score 1) 185

You might with to look to see who attended the interagency task force that caused DoC/NTIA to end up with names and numbers in their bailiwick in the first place.

What you're suggesting is akin gto "omg Santa's gonna take over xmas!"

See also the SAIC/General Atomics connection to the original NSF / Internic cooperative agreement.

Comment Re:All the more reason (Score 1) 185

Some are, some aren't. Very few things are 100%

Te problem is he cost is so high (it was free but you had to have infrastructure and a clue when we tried) that it's discouraged those trying to do some good and leaves it more as a venue for speculative types. Which was what ICANN was purported to prevent. Oh irony I do love you so.

Comment Re:Express Disapproval? (Score 1) 185

It's way too late, they've had numerous public comment periods and that's all over now.

If it wasn't, ICANN would be the one to complain to. You would fly to a meeting and make your case to the board in the part where comments are taken from the audience. Stand in line and when you get your two minute chance at the microphone you can tell your story.

ICANN will thank you for your and will then says "next!".

I wish I were making this up.

Comment Re:And no one cares (Score 2) 185

That is very true. You have to remember that when this domain stuff started some of the actors involved still used CRTs and an old Sun and had never used the web. Postels thesis advisor's thesis advisor (Einar Stefferud) and I became good friends and I talked him into buying a laptop so could do something other than say "what is this" when I sent him a URL.

Stef was thesis advisor to a lot of people: Dave Farber, Brian Reid, etc.He was one of the coolest people ever.

Search engines were very new and there wasn't much in them at the time.

Now? NOW? I know a guy that to get to gmail.com types gmail into google and cicks on the link. You're quite right most people don't get domains now, give them a name to use and they type the fucking thing into Google. Tell them they can type the name directly into the URL bar and they say "meh, this works".

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Comment Re:.dev is for all (Score 1) 185

.delta is the canonical example. Who gets this, Delta Faucets or Delta Airlines?

I turned on the tap and didn't get an airline schedule. Man, I'm one confused consumer.

(Trademarks exists to 1) identify the source of good or a service in a specific geographical area and 2) "consumer confusion" is the metric by which you judge infringement)

Comment Re:.dev (Score 1) 185

It's complicated.

the RFC series defines what TLDs are not usable they're for test and local use.

ICANN maintains a list of second level words you will not use. Fifteen years ago this was "nasa" and "olympic" and it's grown substantially since then to incide batshit insane stuff like the list of all pharmaceuticals. I haven't looked in a while but I think "caffeine" was one of them. There's probably more now, the IP lawyers had their way with ICANN for a decade before any new tlds saw the light of day fifteen years after Postel said "hey, lets do this, start building registries folks. Send your TLD applications to IANA". They did and Jon published a lit of all the applications and names he received.

Pursuant to RFC 1591 says "first come first served" and "these principles apply to all levels of the DNS". So of course ICANN and the lawyers just ignored it.

That is, their fist move was to ignore the consensus we codified in the RFC series. Pretty impressive for an organization whose mandate when chartered by the USG was to "measure and implement the consensus of the internet community".

Here's another one - the $25 domain renewal late fee. Where is the "consensus of the community" for that one? It's a regressive tax ad one only the registrar's want. The registries don't care they never see it.

So we have a case where 0.000000000001% of the net wants it, it costs the users millions. How is this the "consensus of the internet community".

Cost to provision any domain is under one cent. If you're not in the US currency exchange and all the bullshit fees are edging the price of lapsed domain near to the $100 point which is where the net went to war a dozen years ago to counter, which let to ICANN who then enabled the problem they were created to solve.

Can you tell the government and lawyers had their hands all over this or what?

This is why the net neutrality legislation makes me nervous, the only other tie th e guvmint got involved they screwed the pooch badly, with the same apparent good intent then as now.

Comment Re:Greedy bastards. (Score 1) 185

Sure, using generic names is stupid

The only thing less stupid is not using them. You'd be stuck with brand names only then, the IP lawyers dream.

i don't thik .shop or .gallery are bad names because they're generic.

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