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ICANN adds new gTLDs

ICANN adds new gTLDs

Posted Jun 21, 2012 19:04 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: ICANN adds new gTLDs by dlang
Parent article: ICANN adds new gTLDs

And only one of those can own zork.com today, so the issue still applies. The same first-come-first-served rule applies, but without the added confusing of having zork.{com,net,org,biz,bz,co,co.uk,...} all mean different things.

So, one will get zork, one will get zork-enterprises, one will get zorkinc, and so on.


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ICANN adds new gTLDs

Posted Jun 21, 2012 19:24 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

This is an occasion for song, I'd say.

ICANN adds new gTLDs

Posted Jun 23, 2012 23:52 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

but you can have zork.com.uk etc.

it's very easy to end up with conflicting names, and any global naming scheme that you create will have problems dealing with the conflicts. There's nothing inherently wrong with any option, it's just a question of how people end up using it.

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