So shall we save up for...
... icann.sucks ?
The top-level domain .sucks will launch later this month, sparking a fresh round of controversy over what is rapidly becoming the most notorious internet registry. Even before the current owner, Vox Populi, won the rights to run all .sucks domains in an auction – paying an estimated $3m for the pleasure – the domain was the …
This short of shit is the tip of the iceberg.
What about .reallysuck, .really-sucks .sucks-big-time etc.etc.
Another more important thing....
Type
ping android
at the command line.. Something I noticed when I'd forgotten that I'd changed the name of one of my devices to something less generic...
Lovely
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No. This isn't about pseudo top level domains, but the way hostnames can be represented dotless within their local domain.
Using the "domain" or "search" commands within /etc/resolv.conf to add the domain name automatically to dotless host names is a well established mechanism, and has been the default on UNIX systems since forever.
From resolv.conf(5):
domain
search
The issue isn't so much the new domains as such, more the practice of allowing dotless domains (I.e. the top level) resolve A/AAAA/MX records.
A study was done, and it was determined that this shouldn't happen. However, ICANN rejected that proposal.
Paul Vixie on the subject: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110620_domain_names_without_dots/
And here is the SSAC recommendation
Also see: http://www.ipmirror.com/news/updates/icann-new-gtlds-status
. . . it seems almost quaint that there would be an area of the internet in which large corporations do not have overweening power.
Surely they won't prevent Walmart from getting WalmartHorse.sucks.
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The "brand names" don't need to protectively register their names. They just need to monitor what happens on any .sucks domains and the sue the arse of any and every libellous comment.
Despite all the fun we are having in this comment section, the legal ramifications of running any .sucks domain are frightening. Can you afford to be in court for the rest of your life just because in the litigants opinion something is libellous? It might take years and a lot of money before a judge decides in your favour. *if* you win.
jira.domain.com
, now offers something.jira.domain.com