Full list of new gTLDs

I sure hope so. TLDs are irrelevant.

Curious: how? The only way I can imagine is through app store monopolies, but I doubt that's what you meant.

Which is great. I'd prefer http://ajf./ over http://ajf.me./, and it looks like soon enough I might be able to get it, considering how this is destroying the market for 2nd-level domains, hence making it likely we might do away with them altogether.

I think it's the opposite. Many good short .com and .net names are taken by squatters and/or users who don't do anything with them.

This will give a good opportunity to the rest of us.

>3) ftnn2lhnosm.youtube

At least I'll be able to blacklist dQw4w9WgXcQ.youtube in my /etc/hosts and be able to blindly click links again.

They are pretty much killing the idea of using regexes to linkify URLs without the scheme in plain text. Given that Chrome has moved to dropping the `http://` from its address bar, and many people already skip it, they are probably going to break a lot of linkification code in comment forms and the like. Sure, people "should" know to type the `http://`, but many people just don't know about that or don't remember, and there's a lot of encouragement not to.

minecraft.blockbuster

I think it's more that they felt obligated to register it to protect their trademark than them actually wanting to use it.

They could just use `http://blockbuster/`.

I don't mean to endorse GTLDs, of course; it's apparent that they're solely a caustic money-making scheme and have no fathomable benefits.

I use Name.com for registrations. I've only had good experiences with them. Nothing bad to report.

I use them and I think they are very good (though I don't know for sure that they don't have some kind of word blacklist too). Linode uses name.com as their registrar which I think is a pretty good endorsement.

Edit: I got as far as checkout with a domain containing "hacker" so it looks OK on that front.

I use name.com for about 10 domains. Never had a complaint with them.

I have several domains with them and have never had a problem. I had to contact their customer support about a .IO domain and they were really helpful.

I use them and have had no issues

Name.com has been my default registrar for a while, and is pretty decent. Recently while renewing a domain, the anonymous registration stuff didn't apply right (paid for 2 years, got 13 months instead. no biggie). Their support fixed it over email in a few minutes, and I was on my way.

I'd recommend.

name.com is pretty stellar, actually. I would still be using them rather than NameCheap if they had the dynamic DNS features NameCheap does.

I use name.com, and will never register another domain with them, nor recommend them to anyone. It's barely acceptable for a mostly unused vanity domain, but if I were using the domain in any serious way I'd transfer it away in a heartbeat.

The problem: If you use their name servers, they install a wildcard record for the domain pointing at a crummy adspam page. You can override the wildcard record with your own, but not disable it completely, which is completely unacceptable.

Their explicitly stated reason for fucking over their customers is "we make more money this way". Which would be fine, but there's actually no way they'd be making even pennies on my domain, and they are actively reducing its utility by a much larger amount.

I wonder if they ban 'haxx0r' substrings too.

How about golf.volkswagen for the VW page with information on the VW Golf, and mygolf.volkswagen for a community site dedicated to customized or modified VW Golfs? That would differentiate the car club from say, augusta.golf (which would represent the golf course Augusta National).

I believe the rules state that a registrar selling these domains (which VW would then be) must give equal access to everyone (or something along those lines).

On the other hand, getting a big company their own TLD can be easier to maintain. For VW, having everything under the .volkswagen TLD means they don't need to have 100 different domains for each country (like volkswagen.com, volkswagen.co.uk, volkswagen.fr, and so on), each of them with different terms (in some countries you have to pay a yearly fee, in others you don't).

On the other hand, the new TLD only means just another name to maintain, as I don't think anyone will actually remove the ".com" domain when they get their own TLD. One of them will be redirected to the other, and for 99% of the time the custom one will be redirected to the older.

question 2.21 in this FAQ from ICANN would suggest that the flood of ".brand" gTLDs should all fail:

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...

that said, ICANN's process has not inspired confidence that these sorts of requirements will survive. that someone wouldn't sell you a name under a new gTLD (e.g. under .apple, .google, .volkswagen, etc) is one of the problems they are trying to get rid of. why people applied for .brand names when the guidelines and FAQ suggest they'll be forbidden tells me one thing: they expect the rulebook to be thrown out. in the end, it's a cheap gamble.

the whole process, beginning to now, has inflamed a lot of ICANN watchers, and while i'm normally understanding and supportive of ICANN i tend to agree. this is careening to a cluster f---.

We're way beyond that point; countries that want to block stuff are already blocking stuff. But yes, the porn industry did complain that they didn't want to be herded into the .xxx ghetto.

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EDIT http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announc...

>> [The objection period has been] extended .. to 13 March 2013.

I was incorrect

1. gTLDs disappear and we simply register at the top-level

2. See 1

3. See 2