Digital Archery
So they tried to rob from the rich, and ended up not so much Robin Hood, more Dennis Moore.
Confusion continues to surround ICANN’s gTLD program, with the organization canceling the “digital archery” program it had planned to determine the winners of contested generic TLDs. Digital Archery” is now not even lurching towards reality: ICANN hasn’t worked out a replacement process for the land-grab domain releases. In “ …
If it needs some sklill then just add a question
TLD in the application stands for
A: Tropical Lemon Drink
B: Top Level Domain
C: Total Logistical Disaster
(hmm, suppose there could be 2 correct answers there!)
.... or alternatively add "you can also enter for free at itv.com"
No, the new TLDs will be valid and things should still work.
Unelss of course some pillock has decided that a DNS lookup to check an address' validity is too much like hard work, elected instead to hard-code a list of "valid TLDs" and elected to do so in code rather than referring to an easily maintainable list of such somewhere.
That would fall under the umbrella of; "You broke it, so you can bloody well fix it.".
AHA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Tee Hee Hee Hee.
Etc.
Good Grief! The levels of incompetence are staggering. You'd have thought that the half a billion odd dollars they've made would be enough to make a working system. Oh well, I'm sure something else will go wrong if we wait long enough (like another week...).
[Insert standard joke about ICANN buying .fail or .fiasco here]
The people involved in approving this have history in doing this kind of thing.
If you believe Peter Dengate-Thrush spoke to the Singaporean company after jumping ship, I have several bridges I'd like to sell you. He got caught flat out lieing about a number of things when he was the chair of the Internet Society of NZ (which resulted in him being removed) and I find it hard to believe he'd leave ICANN without making sure he had quite secure strings in place to continue manipulating it.
ICANN are dead scared of being sued if they prioritise applications.
All they need to do is pass them as a stack to GAC and hint that they have no standing to advise the GAC on what order they pass them back to ICANN.
This allows the untouchable GAC to decide the order that applications go through the system.
Simples!