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Verisign WILL get .web, ICANN rules

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I think this will allow for some of the most confusing possible domain names.

IT person: What’s the address?

Customer: It’s www.http.web.

IT person: That can’t be right, please check again.

Customer: No, really…

Reminds me of Ed Dodd’s domain: eddodd.com

His mail address being

Ed.Dodd@eddodd.com

“Yeah that’s ed dot dodd at ed dodd dot com”

Most confusing one I've seen is @aaathats3as.com from https://cock.li/

My email is just as confusing (check my bio)

Why is h confusing in an email address?

You get confused once you find that h is not the right answer!

Reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg

as well as the brief time I used "jasomilldotat@jasomill.at" as my own email address.

And slashdot.com

expertsexchange.com

http://slashdot.com

Dept of Computing at Imperial was reportedly:

doc@doc.ic.ac.uk

“Dock at dock dot ick dat ack dot uck”

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Time to register .www

I remember to being slightly confused when there used to be www.fi as a webportal.

Like all sites were www.something.fi so how was this thing...

But that could be fun one. You could have www.www.www or http.www.www possibilities are endlessly confusing.

Oh yes! We need .http and .https too!

com.google.www.http

Reminds me of the old days,

> The name "Slashdot" came from a somewhat "obnoxious parody of a URL" – when Malda registered the domain, he desired to make a name that was "silly and unpronounceable" – try pronouncing out, 'h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-org'".

An early web-centric company I worked for attempted to register www.se in like '94 or '95.

(Un)fortunately the one guy who manually processed all domain name applications for .se via email back then (ber@sunet.se; he passed away in 2005) found it "inappropriate" with no further explanation.

www.creedthoughts.gov.www\creedthoughts

If .web launched in 2000, it might have had a chance, but I can't see how it could be worth $135 million in 2016. I guess I can't imagine the scale of the internet.

I don't recall what our application fee was for .name back in 2000, but it was somewhere well below a million (I want to say $50k or something, but it might have been more), so yeah, a lot easier to make a go of it for operators back then (We also had to provide funding guarantees from our investors for a few million, but those were funds that would flow into our company, so very different)

Of course ".name" also eventually ended up with Verisign after sales fell short of expectations (I still wish we'd held onto the vanity e-mail service we started out with instead - I wanted to hold on until we'd started charging to see what the conversion rates would be; the company we sold it to ended up achieving conversion rates that made it far more profitable than .name; oh well)

They start dirt cheap and invite in the domain name squatters. After the first year they start increasing the renewal rate quarterly.

If you start that cheap, you'll get xyz's problem with domain reputation though

What is xyz domain reputation?

The .xyz TLD was very cheap initially (looks like it's is $10 to renew now) which meant it was easy to buy a lot of them and use them for nefarious purposes. It caused issues for legitimate owners of the TLD who tried to send email with it or other things.

spam spam spam spam

Let's say they want a ten year payback, and profit $20 a year on a .web domain, they need to sell about 625,000 domain names.

Mostly it’s hard to imagine how little money a million dollars is nowadays. $135 million is a small side bet or a few NFTs

Yeah, I just offered a million to a homeless guy and he refused. Told me it's too little money, suggested to save for a side bet... It's the new normal.

I'll take 3.

They should release the .dot domain now.

What's the current going price for a .Google or a .SBI or .microscope or .whatever ?

You buy your own fucking domain extension and rule the world, bwahahaha /s

They're not "domain extensions".

The UN needs to wrest control of the web away from ICANN before they do any more damage.

The UN is well known for being competent and effective

Incompetent, ineffective, and well-meaning is better than incompetent, ineffecti e, and exploitative.

> well-meaning

Well-meaning is difficult to implement in practice because of "Incompetent, ineffective".

As though the UN would handle things any better?

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