We of the ROELF (Rest of England Liberation Front) want a suitable domain for ourselves.
London businesses to signal UNSWERVING LOYALTY to capital with .london domain
Thousands of Blighty businesses have apparently expressed an interest in getting their mitts on .london domains after ICANN gave the new domain name the go-ahead. Companies that want to ensure you know they're in London, or perhaps want to go for regionally translated dialects on their websites, will be able to apply for the …
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Monday 18th November 2013 15:41 GMT Tom 38
Re: Not Good
If Scotland votes Yes, there is no reason to put up with the pretence of Britain anymore, we should devolve to the ancient kingdoms of Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, Wessex, Kent, Essex and Sussex. The Welsh can rule themselves, no-one tell the Cornish and we'll see how long it takes for them to twig.
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Monday 18th November 2013 14:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
There's no exact figures for the number of Polish nationals in London. However, it must be a relatively small number compared to other immigrant communities, as the 2011 census only found 12% of the London populace to be classified as white and non-British. Some Polish immigrants may have taken British nationality, and are therefore included in the white British group (almost 45% of the London populace), but based on the citizenship of the people I know of non-British birth it's unlikely to be a significant number. My wife for example came here almost twenty years ago, but is still not a British citizen.
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Monday 18th November 2013 14:25 GMT btrower
For me, a good sign
Something like this just hastens the collapse of the existing Domain Name System -- at least the notion that a TLD has much significance.
The existing DNS needs to be replaced with one that fixes the many deficiencies of the current one. Prime among those is the notion that some central agency decides who gets what name and whether or not the network is secure by design.
I am really not a rebel, but things are so messed up that nearly everything has to be torn down and rebuilt.
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Monday 18th November 2013 14:38 GMT HMB
Re: For me, a good sign
I rather like the idea that every country (yes including you America) get's it's own TLD and then decides how it wants to do things after that.
Placenames as TLDs are going to work real well right up until someone realises that there's a Birmingham in Alabama as well as England. There's a Sutton in Surrey and one in the West Midlands. All of a sudden that meaning behind the TLD becomes a bit more vague.
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Monday 18th November 2013 15:45 GMT Tom 38
Re: For me, a good sign
There's a Sutton in Surrey and one in the West Midlands.
and Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire and Suffolk and Devon and Kent and Leicestershire and Hampshire and Lincolnshire and Norfolk and Nottinghamshire and Somerset and Oxfordshire and West Sussex and Wiltshire and Yorkshire and Dorset and Essex and Derbyshire and Cheshire and Lancashire ...
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Monday 18th November 2013 20:22 GMT Stuart 22
Re: More likely...
Nope.
OK so in a millennium not to far distant we always registered the com/net/org.uk/co.uk variants for safety for ourselves and our clients.
Then came biz/ws/mobi ... and we all decided to call it a day. Now we only bother with com/co.uk. The more there are the greater incentive not to defensibly register. So great, a London business that missed out on a co.uk can get its name in lights. but that's it. The domain party is over.
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Tuesday 19th November 2013 08:29 GMT Jamie Jones
If they are so stupid to not understand the hierarchial system.....
..... just as well they aren't running the postal service!
Why couldn't Icann tell .london to sod off and pester nominet for london.uk (who I would hope would say no - maybe offering london.city.uk etc.)
Of course, it's money. A total conflict of interest.
I want my new postal address to be "jamie". That's it - I want that to be routable globally
And before someone says that 'one word addresses' could be sent to a particular place to deal with these new personalised addresses, I'd like to add that millions have signed up to the scheme, and more are to follow.
And all the worlds post has to be sorted with no regional distinction.
I may post a letter to my next door neighbour, and it may be delivered via America.
fter a while, we'd soon be wishing that there was some hierarchical system instead..
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Another thing, web addresses become less noticable. You can put on your logo or advert "mysite.com" without needing to clarify further...
Remenber when gmtv got the domain gm.tv ? How many people, on seeing gm.tv at the bottom of the screen knew it was a web address?
It's about time the major ISPs got together and announced that they'd block these new stupid tlds. Heck, all it would take is for google to refuse to index them and a few major isps refusing to resolve them!
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Wednesday 20th November 2013 07:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: If they are so stupid to not understand the hierarchial system.....
"Why couldn't Icann tell .london to sod off and pester nominet for london.uk (who I would hope would say no - maybe offering london.city.uk etc.)"
Because this sort of shit was ICANN's idea in the first place. Yes, that does mean that the DNS is being run by people with no interest in running it properly.
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