The Worldwide Domain Battle

pledibus writes "The New York Times's Sunday magazine contains an interesting article, Get Out of My Namespace, about the spate of conflicts over website names. The author synthesizes ideas from computer technology, law, history, onomastics, cultural anthropology, and probably a few other areas, and does a pretty nice job of it."

Can we...

[Anonymous Coward]

Can't we somehow blame this on Verisign?

Online Law

[neoform]

What we need is a set of laws that govern the internet. When someone is punished they are disallowed access to the net for a given amount of time.

*reads what i just wrote, laughes*

Odd vision

[Tablizer]

Does the international community really want to take on disputes for things like mybigfatjuicycock.com ? No wonder they begged Bush for more participation in Iraq decisions.

Mikr..owe

[Hello this is Linus]

ehm...Mikerowesoft.com?

Shinola Awards

[YetAnotherGeekGuy]

The desperation of company founders and marketing departments to find new names sometimes brings ludicrous results. To single out some of the worst, a California naming company has created the Shinola Awards; recent "winners" -- futuristic, forgettable, pseudo-Latinate, barely pronounceable -- include ACHIEVA, ALTRIA and CRUEX.

WOW, now I have something more to live for than the Darwin Awards. The name is very apt, and its about time.

Re:Online Law

[Stu Catz]

thats not funny, the teacher in my grade 12 class banned me from the net for a week....

Re:http://YOU-FAIL.IT

[spiny]

it's still available:

http://we.register.it/orders/cart/neodomain.html ?d omain2[hostname]=you-fail&domain[tld]=it&check =1

linked [register.it]

:)

I can already see it.

[Doctor O]

Thank you for sending in your domain registration request to SLASHDOT E-GOVERNMENT LLC. We will process your request as soon as possible. Meanwhile, please refer to the attached material.

(Attached image: hello.jpg)

P.S.: Microsoft sucks, Linux rules, *BSD is dying, in SOVIET RUSSIA, DOMAIN registers YOU!

Re:Suckers.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey! That's my phone Number! I SUE YOU!