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Web overlord ICANN has reopened its bug-plagued new top-level domain name registration system almost six weeks after taking it down to patch an embarrassing security hole. Companies signed up to the TLD Application System (TAS) now have until a minute before midnight on Wednesday, 30 May to apply for new generic dot-words such …
Why indeed?
I wonder whether the folks buying these new TLDs have thought it through, or whether it's just a dot-vanity project costing what's less than petty cash to a large ego's corporation?
I have trouble remembering URLs and extra TLDs won't help at all. Google doesn't forget and doesn't care.
... I might be tempted to bid for a dot hack. No, not the "cybercrims" type, thank you. I've even toyed with the notion of making it a kickstarter project.
This despite profound reservations about both the organisation and its initiative to the point that I wouldn't shed a tear if it all came down in flames again, this time hopefully permanently.
Bit difficult when said software is open source. Also, you couldn't possibly argue that there was a technical problem, since arbitrary DNs are handled fine at the next level down.
No, the people most likely to sabotage gTLDs are authors of web browsers and firewalls. You probably could make a case that at least some gTLDs are just channels for unwanted content (.xxx anyone?) and therefore ought to be something that admins and end-users can opt out of.