ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's 263
EyeMyke writes "As reported on News.com, ICANN has approved the .jobs and .travel domains, and is pending decision on .asia, .mail, .tel, and .xxx. One has to ask 'Will these new domains actually prove useful, or is ICANN just avoiding the real issues confronting them in regards to regulating domain registration?'" We've covered both of these domains before, but it would seem they are even more-approved now, or at least the process is important enough to warrant an official announcement from ICANN.
I can't believe they added .jobs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I can't believe they added .jobs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I can't believe they added .jobs (Score:2)
Re:I can't believe they added .jobs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I can't believe they added .jobs (Score:2)
Are these really useful? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Are these really useful? (Score:4, Informative)
John.
Re:Are these really useful? (Score:3, Interesting)
Montreal's transit system is www.stm.info [stm.info]. It's very useful and informative.
The English writing at the above link (which is a history of the Metro system - i.e., subway) is excellent.
Re:Are these really useful? (Score:4, Funny)
etc.
And for ICANN,
Yes... (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh damn, I've depressed myself.
Re:Are these really useful? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Are these really useful? (Score:2)
Hey if it screws any of those guys who buy up domain names to sell with no intention of ever using them I say huzzah. Maybe the really good names should be assigned like chairs in a band.
"Todays feature bouts are Western Digital challenging Maxtor for harddrive.com...IBM vs Tinkerbell for pixiedust.com...and Rush Limbaugh vs Jerry Falwell for bigfatliar.org...todays special grudge match pits Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs for parc.rip"
May the best site win.
billy - wondering if blo.job is still available
Oh, I see 'em all right (Score:3, Insightful)
Actually, I see it most often on business cards from extremely small businesses. The kind where FooCorp has taken the
Like another p
Re:Are these really useful? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Are these really useful? (Score:3, Insightful)
This is exactly backwards. If you own vettemph.com, you already own www.vettemph.com, info.vettemph.com, doctor.vettemph.com, xxx
Re:Are these really useful? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Are these really useful? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Are these really useful? (Score:2, Interesting)
Names (Score:5, Funny)
I'm thinking... (Score:5, Funny)
hand.jobs
head.jobs
Wait, let me get my credit card number.
Re:I'm thinking... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Names (Score:2)
As far as I'm aware, single character domain names aren't allowed any more. Sorry.
none under three? (Score:2)
this was his slick way of reminding me I was jewish, which only bothered him and not me. I knew he was lying because I already tried to register a **.ws domain and I was told it was too short.
Re:none under three? (Score:2)
Re:Names (Score:2)
Re:Names (Score:2)
hot.grits.xxx
ob domain (Score:2)
C'mon, what about boob.jobs? This is Slashdot after all . . .
Re:Names (Score:3, Interesting)
Which brings up an interesting question: can ICANN just usurp New.net's market in .xxx domains without compensating New.net for the destruction of their business? I believe this already happened with the .biz extension [biztld.net], which was originally offered by Atlantic Root Network.
- Ryan
Not enough (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not enough (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not enough (Score:2)
I don't really see this as a problem. There is a lot of legislation in place to keep people away from trademark issues, so I say let people register whatever name they want, just don't be evil.
Re:Not enough (Score:2)
This is true within the 8 hierarchies historically known as Usenet (comp, humanities, misc, news, rec, soc, sci, talk) and within many other hierarchies but there is certainly no authoritative list of top-level names.
Right, but there's a hierarchy of authoritative name information.
Re:Not enough (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not enough (Score:5, Informative)
you'll find there are MANY alternate tld schemes, including one which was using
http://support.open-rsc.org/.servers/
You can freely use any of these servers instead of your ISP's nameservers if you want to be able to see ALL the domain names on the net, not just the ones in the US Government controlled nameservers. You will, of course be able to see all the "old" domain names like
for one example.
Re:Not enough (Score:3, Insightful)
None at all. That's the way it currently works. Only ICANN has the capability :-)
Re:Not enough (Score:3, Insightful)
Monster.jobs? (Score:3, Insightful)
TLDs should be optional (Score:5, Insightful)
Citing monster.com as an example again: it is a jobs site, so it should get a
I shouldn't care whether the site I want is a network, a company, or a non-profit organisation; usually I just want to get to the site.
Re:TLDs should be optional (Score:4, Insightful)
No, it shows that the TLD idea is from a time when net users were expected to have minimum tech knowledge. Once AOL entered the picture, the idea became too complicated for the average luser and broke down.
Re:TLDs should be optional (Score:2)
Re:Monster.jobs? (Score:4, Funny)
I can't imagine a big push by webmasters to move their visitors off their primary websites onto another domain. They'd suddenly have a pack of extra issues to deal with, like realizing that their current authentication cookies that are set for .example.com won't carry across to their new site.
I can almost see the utility in adding a small set of additional TLDs (as opposed to opening the TLDs and being done with it), but the ones they pick are invariably stupid special-interest projects that maybe 15 people will use. I could understand one for, say, .rest for the millions of restaurants out there. Why they labor and strive to bring us .giantballofstring is beyond me.
Re:www.jobs (Score:4, Insightful)
It only seems to do that on domains that are entered by hand. It didn't do that when clicking on the URL that you posted.
The really sneaky thing is that whenever a .jobs server goes down or there's a typo, Monster will get the traffic instead, and will no warning (in Firefox) to the user.
.xxx is potentially bad news. (Score:5, Interesting)
If the point of
Blarg.
Re:.xxx is potentially bad news. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:.xxx is potentially bad news. (Score:2)
now..
Re:.xxx is potentially bad news. (Score:3, Insightful)
Let's say hustler.com simply becamed a redirect to huster.xxx. Any school/library filter would instantly know it's a no-no site, without having some schlub at the filter company check to see if its about tricking people on the basketball court.
For various reasons, FORCING sites onto the xxx tld would be a bad thing - you'd have to put someone in charge of deciding what's pornographic, or adult, and that
Re:.xxx is potentially bad news. (Score:3, Informative)
I really believe someone is going to eventually introduce legislation forcing adult content onto
Re:.xxx is potentially bad news. (Score:3, Funny)
Exactly. And one man's adult content is another man's vacation photos from a topless beach.
Re:.xxx is potentially bad news. (Score:2)
Easy blacklisting, for school and library filters. Also, for scrupulous porn sites, it's good marketing.
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For the seedy sites that try to fool you into visiting them, or that pretend to be one thing when they're really another, this doesn't do much.
Exactly.
Re:.xxx is potentially bad news. (Score:2)
Re:.xxx is potentially bad news. (Score:2)
John.
Re:.xxx is potentially bad news. (Score:5, Interesting)
Maybe the first step is to just create the xxx domain.
What I'd do (if I was ICANN or whomever):
* Create the xxx tld and then take a select bunch of dictionary words and sell them to pr0n friendly bandwidth/hosting providers.
* Make them the official registratrs for "free.xxx", "anal.xxx" or whatever.
* This creates more imaginative and available pr0n namespace (pr0n is always going to be number one)
* Allow ISP's or OS vendors to block xxx domain
* Stop accepting pr0n sites for
** Don't get into censorship, unspoken agreement.
* Allow pr0n marketing on other tld's...
** Direct community of pr0n content producers to use the xxx tld when the content is obscene
** Example: playboy.tv is a site about the channel, but it doesn't have nude content. When you want nude you click into xxx tld, unless your parents blocked it.
** Example (2): Playboy.com is a portal to all xxx tlds but contains magazine content; all images are hosted on a xxx tld.
* Only send form letters to
I think we can solve the "censorship" problem a lot easier that way. Make it transparent to content producers who want to go wild and they will adopt it fast, and that is all it takes. Build the porn, they will come (no pun intended).
Some say this approach will cause it to become USENET 2010, but I say that depends on content producers. If they want to create pointy.boobies.bobs.image.xxx let them - but they will learn right away that won't work.
Comment removed (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:.xxx is potentially bad news. (Score:2)
Even with Firefox's LinkPreview [mozilla.org] you can't tell that whitehouse.org is not what you might think it should be.
Dot triple X could be dangerous (Score:2, Interesting)
If the dot triple X domain is approved, the following worst case scenario is possible.
I don't believe it will actually happen because so far, the people have always held freedom of speech up to be very important.
Note, this is a worst case scenario. I don't believe it's all that likely to happen.
Popular websites, such as playboy.com
It's not a dupe! (Score:5, Funny)
Whoah, back off people he's just applied a +4 magical dupe shield. Now we can't use our 4th level 'Cry of dupe' scroll.
.COM is way too intuitive (Score:2, Insightful)
First because people can spell whitehouse.com better than whitehouse.xxx, due to the O
Second,
When
Re:.COM is way too intuitive (Score:2)
Can we have a .dot, too while you're at it? (Score:5, Funny)
http://slashdot.dot sounds great. Like morse code or something.
Re:Can we have a .dot, too while you're at it? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Can we have a .dot, too while you're at it? (Score:3, Funny)
Fabulous! Typing that URL is a superb introduction to Slashdot's essentially redundant nature. Soon you'll be posting stories that rephrase actual news sites, enjoying CmdrTaco repost them, reaffirming the evils of draconian copyright law in any mildly appropriate article and reusing the Soviet Russia meme. It all starts with the slash, followed by a slash, followed by yet another slash.
I recall "Atlanta's best polka band"... (Score:2)
But of course that's not really their website.
No no no (Score:5, Funny)
Plus it'd be really easy for goverments to censor them all in one fell swoop!
Re:No no no (Score:2)
the purpose of these TLDs is obvious (Score:2)
But I'm probably just seeing the glass as half full aren't I?
At this point... (Score:4, Insightful)
- By language (.it,
- By kind (and assumed language was english (.org,
The first category is ok and works well. But then we come to the second. Having these 4 original category:
So why can't people just use the 2nd level domain to describe who they are? The TLD is already composed of enough entries to distinguish the category.
Slashdot should be
Re:At this point... (Score:3, Informative)
What language do they speak in
Originally, non-international websites were meant to use their own countries (correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a
Its not even consistent between countries. In Australia, th
Re:At this point... (Score:3, Funny)
Re: (Score:2)
,net is (was) for Internet infrastructure... (Score:2)
I think these have always been arbitrary, since anyone can get a
While
Re:At this point... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:At this point... (Score:2)
We have .gov, instead of .gov.us, because the US Government is effectively governing the whole world (save for some few stubborn "renegate countries" they would like to govern as well). Other countries would use .gov.ccTLD to designate their *local* governments. Oh, and the french would not accept the english "gov" and would opt for .gouv.fr ;-)
As for .mil: it's a wonder we don't have the TLDs .usaf, .army and .navy as well, considering how much they are competing against each other!
Re: (Score:2)
These TLD are meaningless (Score:2)
Let the UN take ICANN over and start selling global trademarks. So IBM becomes just
With that local trademarks set right under...
Re:These TLD are meaningless (Score:2)
Let the UN take ICANN over and start selling global trademarks.
The UN as a merchant? Oh no! Everything else would be far better than this!
If the UN starts selling things, shouldn't they be using the un.com domain instead of the .int tld?
.SEX, .XXX, .KIDS Restrict Freedom of Speech (Score:4, Insightful)
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 23:52:50 -0400
Sender: Owner-Domain-Policy
From: Ron Bennett
Subject: [ICANN COMMENT]
To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.NETSOL.COM
First the problems with the proposed
The proposed TLDs
But how does one exactly define adult oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa.
And what happens when ICANN or whoever decides to go the next step and restricts adult oriented materials to *only* certain TLDs - for example
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
In the end TLDs such as
In regards to problems with the proposed
Many of the same points above apply to
How does one exactly define kid oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa. For example, nudity in many parts of the world such as parts of Europe and Japan is not considered harmful to children. On the other hand, violence aimed at children is widely tolerated in the United States, but not content containing nudity.
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
And as I said above, in the end TLDs such as
TLDs should be used to better categorize content, but not to restrict it. While
Bottom line is that TLDs should be for categorizing content, not restricting content which is what the proposed
Ron Bennett
bennett@wyomissing.com
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More posts and comments by others involved in domain name policy regarding these issues:
http://www.circleid.com/article/530_0_1_0_C/
.xxx name clashes? (Score:2, Insightful)
Well... (Score:2, Funny)
.travelcom? .jobscom.com? .xxx.cum.com? (Score:3, Insightful)
(Personally, I almost never care where a domain is hosted, because I use Google to search for my "bookmarks" and rarely type-in domain URLs manually. The new TLDs are just a limited opportunity for registrars to print new money, IMO.)
.mail (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re:.mail (Score:2)
.net was originally meant to be used by ISPs and network infrastructure providers. .isp would be just redundant. Oh, .net became meaningless and open the the general public? Too bad...
Registration. (Score:2)
Oh yeah... this will fly. (Score:2)
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problem (Score:2)
The proposed act to force adult sites to use
This is completely rediculous. (Score:2, Insightful)
My question is... (Score:2)
Re:My question is... (Score:2)
.aslongasthednsspecificationallowswhichisalot
Marketing: Vapors Into Cash (Score:2)
Or, is ICANN just printing up more scrip for the company store? Minting new tokens, marketing them to collectors? Inventing a new fantasy baseball team in order to sell baseball cards?
Yesterday we could choose from five types of breakfast cereal, all more or less same other than packaging. Today we pick from fifty different kinds of br
Who'll be first to register... (Score:2, Funny)
hand.jobs
time.travel
youth-in.asia
hot.mail
hot.xxx
in.tel
ordering-wives-from.asia
etc, etc...
Shortest or weirdest TLDs? (Score:2)
The shortest TLDs are 2-letter ccTLDs. Why don't we consider 1 letter TLDs as well: .a, .b, etc...?
Incidentally, the german telecom, which changes names like a chameleon every now and then, called itself something like t... a few years ago (or they used this as a logo?), and they seriously asked if they could register 't...' as a domain name. Oh well, they've changed names again since then.
Is DNS outdated? (Score:2)
Forgive my ignorance but isn't the DNS hierarchy a throwback to the days when bandwidth was low and most data was kept in flat files?
With modern database technology and highspeed connectivity how difficult would it be to map an IP address to any name with or without any number of dots distributed over a couple of hundred strategically placed name servers? Like a global telephone book.
Re:Is DNS outdated? (Score:2)
The telephone system in most countries already works that way: it maps an arbitrary telephone number to a real physical slot number. That's the reason people can keep their telephone numbers even when moving to a new location.
Re:Is DNS outdated? (Score:2)
That's how DNS works, except that we've all agreed to use the same list of 13 root nameservers controlled by ICANN that publish the same data. It's almost trivially easy for a DNS admin to add or remove servers from that list, but there's a bootstrapping
Why bother with other that com/net/org's? (Score:2)
Is there any real reason for these? It seems the demans remains for
Re:Having made a huge mess already... (Score:2)
Re:Having made a huge mess already... (Score:2)
"Is that what the Internet is about? Jobs, leisure and pr0n?"
Of course not. You forgot free stuff.
billy - yes...lets NEVER forget free stuff
Re:.xxx domain (Score:3, Insightful)
Sure, filtering out hardcore pornography would be made a lot easier if all sites were force
Re:Squatting? (Score:2)
5 years from now we wont even know what to type in (Score:3, Insightful)