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Yeesh...in case there was any doubt beforehand that this is a terrible idea, the initial list is now proof. They have taken something that has a valid technical reason to exist and turned it into a cesspool.

Hopefully those in control of infrastructure take a stand and simply reject these "domains" entirely. Shouldn't be hard to set up sanity-restoring filters...let us please just pretend these are spam domains and never acknowledge their existence.

Ironically anyone vain enough to reserve ".<whatever>" is surely ALSO going to keep a death grip on "<whatever>.com" so this will do nothing to improve the size of the name space.

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> Ironically anyone vain enough to reserve ".<whatever>" is surely ALSO going to keep a death grip on "<whatever>.com"

Monter (the job people) and Monster (the expensive audio product people) are both going for .monster

How do they resolve that? Toss a coin? Auction it?

It's ICANN! It'll be an auction.

I Can Auction Another Network Name?

(Sorry, completely valueless - couldn't resist! :)

Apply for .ICANN. Although maybe it's reserved :P

I believe they cannot just toss a coin - there has to be an element of skill - so they are using a "digital archery" approach.

The user sets a time in the future, and then later must come back and click a button as close to that time as possible. Then users are ranked by the delta between their target time and actual time.

> this will do nothing to improve the size of the name space

It opens new options for "local" addresses: biketour.berlin biketour.paris antics.london etc

wether this will stick is another story.

biketour.berlin.ge biketour.paris.fr antics.london.uk

Nope, there's room for all of those things in the current scheme.

Might I add that none of those cities are the only city to have that name, and that the country part carries real information?

I was gonna say communities like Catalan speakers (.cat) have a good excuse, but then I remembered that ICANN already gave these people their own TLDs.

:-) Your post nicely shows why having a top level domain 'Berlin' could be good idea: without it you would not be able to find those German bike tours. Germany has top level domain de for 'Deutschland'; ge = Georgia (the country)

Fudge, that was just a typo. I did mean de. Too late now. (On Dvorak, d is on h and g is on u, but that's still a bad one.)

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