Soon, monetized but open domain names. (in any characters / language)

[BabyHeadCrab]

Read this before posting >clicky<

For a measly $185,000 I can finally register (www dot) ilovebobby.kotick

...looks a big, fat, tumorous step towards squashing net neutrality.

...people and companies will be able to set up a website with almost any address by the end of next year if they have a legitimate claim to the domain name and can pay a hefty fee... Applications for the new web suffixes will open on January 12 next year and close 90 days later.

Before the competition is open, ICANN will launch a global awareness campaign to give all parties time to prepare for the selection process.

Yep, that fee is only to "apply" for the domain

.apple .hulu .bmw .youtube! only $12.99 a month or packaged for 49.99!

One ICANN member voted against the change:

"I believe that it is not ICANN's job to influence the choice of winners and losers in such competitions, and that is implicitly what we will be doing."

Time to take out massive loans and start applying for popular words in various languages this next January , make cash like the heyday of URL parking. (this could actually be a viable investment, so long as you avoid company, governmental, territorial or organization based domains) - too bad I don't even have close to $10,000 in my savings.

dibs on .bro

 

[Bad^Hat]

Well that's terrible.

 

[Stylo]

.Music and .Porn please.

 

[Letters]

Domain names don't even matter anymore... doesn't everyone just type whatever they want into Google?

 

[No Limit]

Yeah, I think this is a pretty dumb idea.

 

[CptStern]

Domain names don't even matter anymore... doesn't everyone just type whatever they want into Google?

a coworker does this with our company website. he types it in google instead of in the url bar

 

[ríomhaire]

Domain names don't even matter anymore... doesn't everyone just type whatever they want into Google?

No.

 

[PvtRyan]

I really don't see what this has to do with net neutrality. Yeah, they could charge you for going to .youtube, but they can also charge you now if they wanted for youtube.com. In fact, in order to charge for you.tube (or whatever) they would have to charge for youtube.com as well because both domains would point to the same website.

Neither do I see a problem with the fee. Do you want every asshat with $20 to be able to register an extension?

 

[No Limit]

I agree with you on the net neuatrality thing. But I don't think any asshat should be allowed to register an extension. There should be a limited amount of top level domains out there and they should be assigned as needed.

 

[Solaris]

What has this got to do with net neutrality?

I doubt this change will be very significant at all.

 

[Higlac]

What'll happen to .onion?

 

[Remus]

I think using some weird domain name will have a negative effect, when it comes to attracting visitors. However with well known names such as google it wont be a problem.