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by xg15 3395 days ago
> A great case study in "The Web is hard."

Or alternatively "the web is hard if you sacrifice any kind of structure to make a quick buck".

On the risk of sounding get-off-my-lawn-ish, but TLDs used to be assigned using some relatively simple, service-agnostic rules: A hierarchical system for ccTLDs, plus a small set of universal gTLDs plus some historic quirks. Nowadays assignment seems to be solely by who pays most.
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kogepathic 3395 days ago
> On the risk of sounding get-off-my-lawn-ish

You don't. At least not to me. The new gTLDs are clearly a money grab on the part of ICANN.

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seanp2k2 3395 days ago
I'm sure brands and attorneys love it. Now they have to defend Coke and Disney and their hundreds of associated domains across hundreds of TLDs. Think of the permutations.
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astrodust 3395 days ago
Twenty years ago it was utterly unthinkable that anyone would get a corporate TLD. Today it's like "Why doesn't Coke have one?"

The ICANN has really gone into dark territory with this decision to open things up. It's fitting that their wiki logo is some unruly weed taking over the world: https://icannwiki.org

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