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ICANN speaks: yes to radio, hotel, eco. No to gay, taxi, art, and hotel

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Wait wait wait wait. Osaka?? (Score: 2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-10-14 16:55 (#2TBZ)

A city now gets its own TLD?

What the HECK is that about?

(answer: yen)

Re: Wait wait wait wait. Osaka?? (Score: 3, Insightful)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-10-14 20:07 (#2TC4)

I was thinking exactly the same thing. If you remember what a wasteland of disorganized crap the alt section of Usenet got to be, I think the geniuses at ICANN, blinded by their own greed, are about to do the same thing to domain names. I plan on registering .sucks as soon as possible so I can go register up slashdot.sucks, putin.sucks, obama.sucks, and the like - not because I care but because important people will pay to have them taken down. Then some other chucklehead can register .sucks.not.really and then suddenly we're halfway to .flonk.flonk.flonk and .usenet.kooks and the like.

Nice work ICANN, you rapacious bastards.

Re: Wait wait wait wait. Osaka?? (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-10-14 20:34 (#2TC6)

I know it can wreak havoc with the current DNS database architecture, but I'm one of those fools who thinks arbitrary TLDs are just hunky dorey. You KNOW .mcdonalds is coming. You just KNOW it. So why fight the current?

At the SAME time, this highest-briber wins crap is for the birds. Open the damned floodgates you thieving bastards.

.zafiro is a perfectly cromulent top level domain name. And it should cost $15, same as in town.

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2014-10-15 18:38 Insightful +1 kerrany@pipedot.org

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Marked as [Not Junk] by bryan@pipedot.org on 2015-01-02 05:35