Dot-sucks sucks, say lawyers: ICANN urged to kill 'shakedown' now The intellectual property constituency (IPC) of domain overseer ICANN has formally asked the organization to halt the rollout of the controversial .sucks top-level domain, due to start on Monday. In a letter [PDF] sent from the IPC to ICANN's head of the Global Domains Division, Akram Atallah, the IP lawyers complain that the …
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Heh, yeah.. it is rather rich that on one hand ICANN and all these corporates are pushing for more gTLDs, and then when one doesn't go their way, THEN the corporates claim it's a shakedown etc. :)
#amused
The whole idea that we need all these extra domains, yeah.. uh.. nah...
I wonder if vacuum cleaner manufacturers feel the same need to purchase such a domain? I mean, if someone else registers it, it doesn't have quite the same negative connotation.
Agree that all these "new" TLDs are way too expensive. I'd imagine they're either going to get much cheaper in a few years time... or much more expensive!
Usenet certainly doesn't. c.f. alt.aol-sucks ... One wonders why "ICANN is sucks" isn't a meme (yet), and for the same reason "AOL is sucks" has been around for a couple decades or so.
Repeat after me: "The Human language name is NOT the IP address; The Human language names for the SAME IP address are NOT the IP address; The Human Language name(s) have NOTHING to do with the IP address, except in the minds of the technologically incompetent ...".
posted from my seemingly un-killable AOL account ...
>The Human language name is NOT the IP address... snip...The Human Language name(s) have
> NOTHING to do with the IP address, except in the minds of the technologically incompetent ...
What about
seventy-two-dot-six.ty-one-dot-fourty-three-dot-eig.ht
That could also be the IP (72.61.43.8), in which case it'd also have quite a lot to do with the IP - though I suspect the technologically incompetent _would_ fail to make the association.
EDIT: Reduced label length by adding a subdomain
Sorry.... feeling ever so slightly argumentative today, does it show?
No, Ken
OneTwentySeven.Oh.Oh.One could be pointed at ANY IP address. That's what DNS does. If the .One TLD became available, ElReg (for example) could have OneTwentySeven.Oh.Oh.One open the same web page that theregister.co.uk opens.
Again, the human readable address is not the IP address.
Again, Ken, the human readable address has nothing to do with the dotted quad IP address.
127.0.0.1 is not routable (usually[0]). The English equivalent is (or could be, assuming the TLD existed and BIND/DNS/magical-workaround knew about it).
[0] Occasionally I configure BSD systems to route 127.0.0.0/8 (IPv6 ::1) for software[1] testing purposes. The machines are on their own firewalled-away-from-the-world-at-large Internet, naturally.
[1] Wetware testing, actually. Human error knows no bounds ...
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