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Icann reveals new internet top-level domain name claims
Stoic Joker:
I don't see this ending well. When private companies control cognates (root words like "book" or "apple" or "food"), it's simply too open to abuse. It really needs to have some kind of FRAND attached to it. Meh... This will go the same insane route as patents and copyright IP.-Renegade (June 13, 2012, 11:17 PM)
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+1 - It's a precursor to a "channel" based internet that they can charge (read: bleed us out) for ala carte.
TaoPhoenix:
There's something hysterically funny there about Google applying for a hundred, Apple only wants one. "If it ain't .apple, it's second rate." ;D
TaoPhoenix:
They say that the ungodly amounts required are to filter out non-serious inquiries, but it seems more like it's to restrict new gTLDs to corporations only.
Raise your hand if you have $185,000 extra to spend on a domain... :P
Didn't think so... ;)
-Renegade (June 13, 2012, 11:17 PM)
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You're looking at next year's DC fundraiser! :D
Renegade:
There's something hysterically funny there about Google applying for a hundred, Apple only wants one. "If it ain't .apple, it's second rate." ;D
-TaoPhoenix (June 15, 2012, 04:22 AM)
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Well, yeah, funny until I think that Apple is a pure predator, and likely has some proxy company doing everything else for them. That's how the stock market works, so I doubt this is much different. Apple defines itself by being simple, so anything else is bad publicity for them. Google on the other hand is trying to be all things to all people, so .mom, .etc all make sense for it.
But I really do wonder now that you pointed that out...
KynloStephen66515:
There's something hysterically funny there about Google applying for a hundred, Apple only wants one. "If it ain't .apple, it's second rate." ;D
-TaoPhoenix (June 15, 2012, 04:22 AM)
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Well, yeah, funny until I think that Apple is a pure predator, and likely has some proxy company doing everything else for them. That's how the stock market works, so I doubt this is much different. Apple defines itself by being simple, so anything else is bad publicity for them. Google on the other hand is trying to be all things to all people, so .mom, .etc all make sense for it.
But I really do wonder now that you pointed that out...
-Renegade (June 15, 2012, 04:29 AM)
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Apple, the simple company for simple minded people
Google are trying to syndicate the entire Interwebs, think of them as a sort of 'Mafia' except that mafia gives you lots of free things...but they expect to know everything you do so they can make money out of you ^_^
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