Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called "Search"..?
I try not to flood Nanog with articles, but I thought I'd ask for some opinions on this. For the moment, most browsers treat a single line with no tld as a search request, why have a tld-less tld? Would this not open the door for others to claim they need a word as a tld (cisco = http://routers or Al Gore http://internets), and how would that be handled by most modern(ish) browsers and devices? http://m.gizmodo.com/5994354/google-wants-to-create-a-dotless-domain-called-... Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
I'm hoping google is doing this for m2m and not human interaction, but I could be wrong. I just envision years of re-educating grandparents and less technical users and I'm dreading it. Cheers, Joshua Sent from my iPhone On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:14 AM, "Warren Bailey" <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:
I try not to flood Nanog with articles, but I thought I'd ask for some opinions on this. For the moment, most browsers treat a single line with no tld as a search request, why have a tld-less tld? Would this not open the door for others to claim they need a word as a tld (cisco = http://routers or Al Gore http://internets), and how would that be handled by most modern(ish) browsers and devices?
http://m.gizmodo.com/5994354/google-wants-to-create-a-dotless-domain-called-...
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
The whole custom TLD thing is just a truly awful, awful idea. Oliver ------------------------------------- Oliver Garraux Check out my blog: blog.garraux.net Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/olivergarraux On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Joshua Goldbard <j@2600hz.com> wrote:
I'm hoping google is doing this for m2m and not human interaction, but I could be wrong.
I just envision years of re-educating grandparents and less technical users and I'm dreading it.
Cheers, Joshua
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:14 AM, "Warren Bailey" < wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:
I try not to flood Nanog with articles, but I thought I'd ask for some opinions on this. For the moment, most browsers treat a single line with no tld as a search request, why have a tld-less tld? Would this not open the door for others to claim they need a word as a tld (cisco = http://routersor Al Gore http://internets), and how would that be handled by most modern(ish) browsers and devices?
http://m.gizmodo.com/5994354/google-wants-to-create-a-dotless-domain-called-...
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
On 4/11/2013 3:56 PM, Oliver Garraux wrote:
The whole custom TLD thing is just a truly awful, awful idea.
Oliver
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On 4/11/13, Oliver Garraux <oliver@g.garraux.net> wrote: Agreed; but it would seem that unstoppable forces have been set into motion by ICANN, to cause it to happen, regardless of whether it is beneficial to the community, and regardless of any objections from the public... Yes... let a single organization own http://search No intrinsic bias here... no unfairness, for a single organization to hold that name... Right...
The whole custom TLD thing is just a truly awful, awful idea.
Oliver
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On 4/12/13 3:41 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
On 4/11/13, Oliver Garraux <oliver@g.garraux.net> wrote:
Agreed; but it would seem that unstoppable forces have been set into motion by ICANN, to cause it to happen, regardless of whether it is beneficial to the community, and regardless of any objections from the public...
Yes... let a single organization own http://search No intrinsic bias here... no unfairness, for a single organization to hold that name...
Right... Still riding high from their success with .mobi (disclaimer, I worked for Nokia at the time, it was a bad idea then, it's still a bad idea)...
It's entirely plausible that you're overselling the value of a gtld a bit.
The whole custom TLD thing is just a truly awful, awful idea.
Oliver
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From: "Oliver Garraux" <oliver@g.garraux.net>
Subject: Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called "Search"..? The whole custom TLD thing is just a truly awful, awful idea.
Whether gTLD expansion is a good or bad idea (protip: good) is orthogonal to whether anyone who has such a gTLD should be permitted to put A records in the DNS for the TLD proper (protip: bad, and they'd find out the hard way, since most things would break). Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
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