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The company behind Ping golf clubs and owner of ping.com has paid domain name overseer ICANN $1.5m for the rights to the top-level domain .ping. The auction pitched it against one other applicant (general registry company Radix) and also included a second internet extension, .srl, which went for $400,000. The suffix "SRL" is …

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  1. Mark 85

    "All proceeds from the auction are being segregated and withheld from use until ICANN's Board of Directors define a plan for an appropriate use of the funds through consultation with the community."

    Less, of course, certain expenses directly related to the consultations.... like meeting in Rio, etc.? Possibly a hardship bonus for those directors who can't make the meetings...oh hell.. give the ones traveling a bonus for being on the road.

    This whole auction thing with them pocketing extremely large chunks of change stinks and not in a good way. Since they get the cash and have probably figured out that this "free money", we'll see more and more of these new domains forthcoming. Can't kill the golden cow now can we?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Golden Cow? In all honestly I'm impressed with ICANN. They have proven you CAN polish a turd.

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      1. skeptical i
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        Devil

        Surely it's .turd they're polishing?

        Now accepting bids ....

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    1. jonathanb Silver badge
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      Apart from the usual country level domains, and obviously .org, .gov and .int, the only "alternative" domain I see in regular use is .tv, and that is actually a country level domain, but often used by television stations.

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      1. Bronek Kozicki
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        Wait, ".int" ? What does that stand for?

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          Anonymous Coward

          .int is for international organisations established by treaties. On the subject of .biz and .info, the only thing they add for me is red flags.

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          1. jonathanb Silver badge
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            Correct. ecb.int (European Central Bank), is the .int I visit most often, to get official exchange rates, though it has now moved to ecb.europa.eu

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    2. silent_count
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      .sillyword

      Was sold to a private bidder late last year.

      (Yeah. I made it up but would you be at all surprised?)

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  3. Christoph

    .ping?

    And the gTLD .ring has been bought by a company based in Mordor.

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  4. Ole Juul

    New TLDs offer new opportunities

    I think they are actually a technical advancement and I'm looking forward to being able to filter out all kinds of idiots without half trying.

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  5. Czrly

    Why sell both .game and .games? Surely this will lead only to more domain squatting when sites forget to register or renew their entry for one or the other.

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  6. king of foo

    .cum hither with thine .co.ck

    ...and enjoy my new web porn empire.

    I still say the gtld should be at the BEGINNING of the URL. But the same clever people in the US responsible for date/time formats made that call didn't they?

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  7. Ralph B

    ping test.ping

    $ ping test.ping

    ping: unknown host test.ping

    $ # Too soon?

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  8. caffeine addict

    So, they're allowing companies to register their own name, even if that's an unmodified English word AND it has a specific meaning inside their own branch of IT?

    ICANN really are buggering the whole thing up in exchange for gold lined pockets, aren't they? And this is why a company should never have been allowed control of the system.

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