Re:URL "order checker" for new TLDs (Score 1)

I'm not sure how specifically this might work, but people are going to need a way to deal with the new TLDs; with lots of new suffixes, you won't be able to just remember one word and add a ".com" after it like today.

So we're going to need some kind of URL "order check," so that anybody who types in ipod.apple instead of apple.ipod (or whatever the appropriate URL ends up being) will quickly and clearly be corrected and then automatically forwarded to the most appropriate website (the legal issues surrounding a particular URL's "correctness" for a search will of course will have to be fleshed out in the design and subsequent lawyer battles, and it could even turn out to be a very powerful thing to control).

Also, I'm sure that the "correctness" algorithm would necessarily reflect the corporate philosophy of the company that creates it. To get around that, I suppose you could integrate third-party search engine results into the order checker or something like Google Suggest feature in search fields, etc.