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Domain specialist Rightside has won the fight for the generic top-level domain dot-news and will roll it out in the middle of the year. The company acquired the rights to sell all domains ending in .news through an auction and its partner domain company Donuts – beating Amazon as well as several other specialist registry …

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  1. Ole Juul

    dang

    I just looked up dotnews.com . . . not available.

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  2. frank ly

    Wait a minute

    "That has promoted applicants for the same name to go to private auction where the proceeds are shared equally between the losing parties."

    Isn't that 'auction rigging' or some similar crime?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Wait a minute

      That sounds great, how do I go about bidding one pence?

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  3. Down not across

    New gTLDs

    I tend to treat anything other than .com, .org, .net and ccTLD as phising or scam.

    Call me a luddite, but there was really no need for these new gTLDs.

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    1. kierenmccarthy
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      Luddite

      um, that's it

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    Paris Hilton

    Whoopee

    That's great! News from crap.news will be so much more reliable than news from crap.com. Well worth my share of the $10M, which I am pretty sure we punters will end up paying indirectly.

    Paris, because surely paris.news will be here in no time.

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  5. The FunkeyGibbon

    Oh goodie

    So many new domains to buy to protect your brand and with so many of them being relevant too! I look forward to being able to type Apple.news or Apple.ninja and have it redirect to Apple.com.

    This launch really is creating a wonderful new future for the Internet where lots of individuals can have meaningless domains with 'Under Construction' banners on them, just like the mid 90's.

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