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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?

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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.

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