ICANN Extends New Domain Deadline Because of Bug 41
judgecorp writes "ICANN has extended the deadline for applications for new generic top level domains until Friday 20th April. ICANN says it observed 'unusual behavior' in the system, which has now been fixed, but has extended the deadline to make sure everyone (with $185,000) gets a chance. From the article: 'ICANN’s technical staff have been working on a fix to a problem with the TLD Application System (TAS) but it was now working again, an ICANN spokesman in Europe told TechWeekEurope.
“I don’t yet have all the details, but here is what I do know,” Brad White, ICANN’s director of media affairs told TechWeekEurope. “There was not a cyber-attack of any type.”'"
Their official statement... (Score:5, Informative)
is here [icann.org].
Understandable (Score:5, Funny)
Internet security can be tough, and you can't expect them to have experts available.
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Where are my mod points when I need them?
We're not that stupid! (Score:3)
All this is is a money grab, to try to get companies with deep pockets to "OMG WE NEED TO OWN OUR OWN TLD BEFORE A COMPETITOR DOES." So what if PepsiCo buys .coke? The dot.com is still #1.
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And people got used to it by now. Even and especially the non-techs.
I don't get the .brand type hype either. If anything, it will lead to confusion. Non-techs don't like change in their ways once they finally grasped the concept of something tech-y.
Re:We're not that stupid! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Throw in a $200,000 "pre-bate" and I'm in!
(in other words, you'll have to pay me to use it. DotCom is just fine, and this is just a shake-down by ICANN, the same as the "OMG we need to 'protect' our name by reserving the .xxx tld or else!")
Here's a better idea - give everyone a bunch of 1p6 addresses and kill off the domain name system entirely. It's only a hack to allow translation between human-friendly "names" and ip addresses any
An ICANN watchdog website? (Score:3)
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Does anyone know of a new site to post criticism of ICANN besides slashdot?
At ICANN 43 I found three sites useful for keeping track of ICANN's moves :
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NoDaddy.com also used to carry criticism of GoDaddy, but then GoDaddy made NoDaddy's web admin an offer he couldn't refuse, and suddenly there was no where to post criticism of either. Does anyone know of a new site to post criticism of ICANN besides slashdot?
Why don't you create one? What you're describing sounds like a profitable business model.
The only risk would be if GoDaddy went belly up before you ever got a chance to get on their radar.
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NoDaddy.com also used to carry criticism of GoDaddy, but then GoDaddy made NoDaddy's web admin an offer he couldn't refuse, and suddenly there was no where to post criticism of either. Does anyone know of a new site to post criticism of ICANN besides slashdot?
Why don't you create one? What you're describing sounds like a profitable business model.
Assuming that getting "an offer you can't refuse" is a good thing.
poo (Score:3)
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yeah, the "unusual behavior" is that nobody except registrars and ICANN gives a fuck about new generic tlds. the corporate world has finally figured out how much of a ripoff the whole system is.
No way man, the thing is I was like, about to submit this app, then there was this, technical glitch, and then I could not register my new .ROFLMAO and I was like, pissed. But then I saw this news and I was like, 'yay!' cause now I can get my new .ROFLMAO with my 200k that I had sitting right here.
ROFLMAO. You can't type it anymore because I own dat shit. ryyat.
TLDs? (Score:5, Interesting)
Personally, I don't see a need for top level domains at all. Yes, the might be needed for technical purposes, but the domain name system needs to be overhauled anyway and TLDs are mostly meaningless except for allowing some educated guesses about the location of servers (which often turn out to be wrong).
I'm quite confident that a censor-free distributed DNS system is coming soon, and then TLDs will be obsolete.
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Please let this happen... This whole centralized system has taken quite the while to be disintegrated and replaced with de-centralized censor-free one... then again, I guess no new system will be designed and used until the current one is no longer usable which, unfortunately, still is.
Hence why, real nerds, should stay on the lookout for the next DNS-destroying law, with least repercussions, and vividly support it... Only then, will we start thinking realistically of a new DNS system.
Bittorrent came in tim
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National TLDs are somewhat useful if you want to filter content by languages you understand.
Re:TLDs? (Score:4, Informative)
it's quite a news story here in Scotland because it looks like Scotland is to at long last get .scot after a long campaign [blogspot.co.uk] -- unfortunately, when the treaty of the union of the parliaments between the kingdom of England and the kingdom of Scotland (this is what UK actually means) was produced in 1706, they forgot to add a clause in the articles of union about internet TLD rights for the country. I wonder why.
UK isn't really a country you see; it's just an agreement to unify the political structure [wikipedia.org] of two kingdoms and work as one. It's an artefact that could well change when Scotland goes to the vote [scotlandforward.net] to decide whether to remove that union and operate as a self-governed country, or operate as a more devolved parliament with greater powers than currently (not unlike a state in the USA), or indeed stay as-is.
funnily enough,. the nerds here in Scotland weren't too happy about getting .sco and have requested .scot [newdomains.org] instead!
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j.aime.les.bi.scot [wiktionary.org]
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It's not about the location of the servers, it's about the location of the services. People living in the USA may not get this because .com is the norm. However when I go to a company's website trying to buy something locally I automatically slap a .au on the end of it and even though it redirects me to a .com address a lot of the time I still end up with a page that meets the needs of an Australian customer.
I couldn't care less where the server was hosted as long as I see the prices in AUD and the shipping
7 years from now (Score:1, Funny)
Remember when you had to type in a domain name to acess stupid shit that is now intelligently sorted in superwikibookfacer? I heard daft corporations pissed 185k away just to catalyze a transition away from random horribly programmed websites to a secure cohesive flourishing knowledge and resource mapping infrastructure of community maintained distributed networks?
Too much?
I can't wait (Score:3)
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I'd so want the TLD .off. I mean, think of the possibilities. Fuck.off, jack.off, turn.off, back.off...
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http://www.microsoft.suck/ [microsoft.suck]
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Does an ICANN policy exists for filtering top level domains requests?
How much? (Score:4, Funny)
>185,000
How exactly did they come up with that number?
I can see the meeting now.
"Guys...
guys.
Guys listen
I have the best ide...
guys listen
I have the best idea ever
Guys...
We'll tie....
Guys
DOLLARS
We'll tie the DOLLARS
guys, listen here...
We'll tie the DOLLARS to the speed of PACKETS in MILES PER SECOND.
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BMO
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