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An Open Letter to ICANN on the TLD.js Movement (wewantjs.org)
6 points by lloydhilaiel 5141 days ago
3 comments
malandrew 5141 days ago
Just make sure that only javascript projects get a *.js domain. Not coffeescript, emscriptem or clojurescript (sorry to emscriptem and clojurescript because I'm lumping you in with the only community actually guilty of calling their projects .js when they should be something else.
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DieBuche 5141 days ago
The font is really gruesome. Looks like a modern version of comic sans.

Use stuff like this for headers, never for whole paragraphs of text.

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kijin 5141 days ago
ICANN is already accepting applications for whatever TLD you want to create. You don't have to be a country to get one. So what's the point of this "petition"?

I'm guessing that the goal is somehow to bypass the hefty fees that ICANN charges on anyone who applies for a new TLD. If so, why not just say that that's the objective, and skip the nonsense about JavaScript being a nation with billions of lines of virtual GDP?

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lloydhilaiel 5141 days ago
"Two-character ASCII strings are not permitted, to avoid conflicting with current and future country codes based on the ISO 3166-1 standard."

See https://github.com/ozten/TLD.js/issues/8

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kijin 5141 days ago
Ah, I see. I wish they made this clear in the landing page.
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