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ICANN New Open Domain Policy
Posted by: Michael on Mon, Jun 20th, 2011
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Today ICANN voted to change the way we visit websites, they have pretty much allowed for any word to be a generic top-level domain (gTLD) starting in 2012. What is a g? You may know them as .com, .net, .org and .edu. There are currently 22 top level g’s.
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I don’t see a lot of value. Other than TLD<xxx> for porn.
I’m not sure that DNS provides a lot of value for the problems it has and point of failure it introduces.
And, it keeps us from “solving” the identity crisis. How do I find folks on the net and how do I know it the right one? Think Lilly Tomlin as the Telephone Lady: “Is this the party to whom I am speaking?”. Makes as much sense. It’s much worse on Twitter and little better on Facebook.
Argh!
Why can’t we have phone numbers as a TLD. AAA-BBB-CCCC.tel. I thought that was proposed a while ago. Require Google validation of the identity and then you have “identity” solved.
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