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By: A random three-digit code from the SEO industry or a nice, shiny label from Sir Tim Berners-Lee? No contest, no contest… » Out With A Bang

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:29:05 +0000

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By: o-shift

o-shift — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:45:25 +0000

this could be interesting. as i understand this getting .rose extension may cost many thousands of dollars and the most desirable TLD’s (.news, .weather .blog, etc.) will spur auctions. but one area where this can get really interesting, if i understand ICANN’s concept, is how news organizations use it.

for instance, .local — if pick-your-media company buys that TLD it can then roll out, unfettered, newyork.local, chicago.local, etc and brand the heck out of it, with the hope that typing in yourcity.local becomes second nature. The owner of such a TLD could also build out local franchise efforts, tapping into existing neighborhood blogs to create new forms of advertising supported local content.

By: Drew Geraets

Drew Geraets — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:22:08 +0000

This is why I think they need to raise the wholesale rates for .com domains instead, making it more expensive to batch purchase domain names and then squat for years. I would pay $50 a year for my domain if it meant 50% less squatters and prevented excessive web sprawl.

By: links for 2008-06-30 « David Black

links for 2008-06-30 « David Black — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:34:38 +0000

[...] .rose - BuzzMachine “The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to open up top-level domains to most any suffix we can imagine.. Who could win in this? Who always wins these days: Google, of course.” (tags: internet domainnames icann search) [...]

By: invitedmedia

invitedmedia — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:02:47 +0000

.f#ckingwasteoftime

By: Gregor J. Rothfuss

Gregor J. Rothfuss — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:08:40 +0000

re: your point about unique names, i wrote about that almost five years ago. it is a fun exercise to come up with systems that give 10 billion people unique names..

By: Managing Multiple Online Identities (Podcamp Ohio) : Andrea Hill writes about accessibility, social media, user experience and front end development at afhill.com

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:14:23 +0000

[...] up for services you would be actively engaging with. (with the announcement today that the “Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to open up top-level domains…“, the challenges of retaining a firm hold on a specific word/brand may get a lot harder). I [...]

By: ICANN but Definitely Shouldn’t « Connected

ICANN but Definitely Shouldn’t « Connected — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:49:47 +0000

[...] .com. Speaking of which, Jeff Jarvis thinks this decision could be good for one industry…search. This plan has been overwhelmingly panned and I just do not see how it will be a benefit, however [...]

By: Andy Freeman

Andy Freeman — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:29:05 +0000

The utility of the amazon tld is the difference between movies.amazon.com and movies.amazon - I think that it’s fairly marginal.

I think that amazon.movies is far more valuable than movies.amazon and amazon, blockbuster, netflix, disney, etc will have to buy the former from .movies.

By: Carlos Alonso

Carlos Alonso — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:54:34 +0000

From what I understood, the ICANN is only opening this possibility, but you still need their approval to create a TLD, and provide the reasoning, plan and infraestructure to do that. Not necessarily cheap.

And brands are still protected against copyright infrightment, so nobody can get a chance to create the TLD .amazon but Amazon itself.

Given this, I only expect an explosion in TLDs in generic words, like .blog, etc. An interesting turn in this is that now territories with nationalistic ambitions can create its own TLD more easily.

By: Andy Freeman

Andy Freeman — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:04:28 +0000

Back when the syntax for domain names was being decided, there were two proposals. The UK pushed for “com.amazon.whatever”. The French wanted “whatever.amazon.com”. Note that names after the host use the UK format.

If the UK format for domain names had won, we’d have had com.amazon.books, com.amazon.movies, etc. And, when amazon got to be its own tld, it would own amazon.books, amazon.movies, etc.

And, yes, there’s a huge difference between store.amazon and amazon.store.

By: Nate Westheimer

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:30:44 +0000

I’m with you that this will be a clusterf*ck at first, but what’s the better solution? As you point out, time and technology will even things out.

By: Jeff Harrell

Jeff Harrell — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:26:17 +0000

Seeing as how one of the Jeff’s above you is the late Jeff Buckley, I think “eliminating” them would only be the beginning of your task.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:05:53 +0000

Jeff, you need to embed this video in your post… http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7333522659474918080&q=clownpenis.fart&ei=QXJlSJO4EqHoqgOx87i6AQ

By: Rex Hammock

Rex Hammock — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:14:23 +0000

The rollout of such top level domains a .info and .biz certainly added to the confusion — and probably helped Google. I was in a meeting today in which someone typed in an association acronym and the .com only to discover an obscure association dedicated to a certain type of horse saddle — it could have been worse.

In addition to Google, the .com domain will likely go up in value. It’s sort of like having the right area code and exchange in New York. Or having the 800 number instead of the 877. Or beach front property.

Also, the name thing is especially problematic if you have a common first AND last name. ( I have neither.)

By: Harl Delos

Harl Delos — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:27:47 +0000

I hate those silly made-up names like Flickr.

It was much better when companies had REAL names, like Kodak and Xerox.

But why would Amazon need to buy amazon.store, amazon.book, amazon.everything? They won’t buy amazon.store; they’ll set up store.amazon. They won’t need amazon.book. They’ll set up books.amazon. Once they buy the top level domain, and all the others are yours to delegate.

Buy the “nerd” top level domain, and sell domain names for $2/year, and you could probably make a fortune. Me, I’m thinking about buying the “xxx” top level domain, selling domain names for $50, and getting all sorts of governments to ban pr0n except on the “xxx” top-level domain. After all, it’d make filtering MUCH simpler - a single line in your “hosts” file, and your husband can’t get to pr0n sites, and what’s more, probably can’t figure out why….