ICANN Adds To The Cost Of Doing Business In Asia
from the who-cares? dept
While they've decided to pretend they never brought up the idea of an .xxx domain, ICANN did move forward with plans to add a .asia top level domain to all of the other top level domains that companies don't want, but will be forced to buy. All the countries in Asia already have their own TLD, of course. However, what this means is that any company doing business in Asia, whether based there or not, will now suddenly need to buy this domain to protect their trademark -- even if they have no intention of ever using it. Like almost all of the other TLDs ICANN has approved, these aren't needed and only serve to make companies feel like they have to buy more domains. ICANN either needs to figure out how to let any TLD work, or stop adding these useless ones.
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Missing the point
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Forced Puns Dept
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If they REALLY wanted to make lots of money...
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The Celtic Fiddler, violins, violas, cellos, and accessories
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Re: If they REALLY wanted to make lots of money...
Keep in mind they aren't fooling the regular sheep...I mean, the customers, they are grifting the other corporations mostly.
If they got too greedy, the bigger bullies would simply go higher up and take them out (or buy them out).
Its a fine line.
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Re: Missing the point
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Re: Missing the point
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Re: Missing the point
Non-profit only means that at the end of the day, there's no money left.
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I'm confused
why can't we just use techdirt instead of techdirt.com you could always register techdirtcom if you really wanted com in your name.
do the "dot" do anything useful at a technicakl level?
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Re: I'm confused
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Re: I'm confused
Americans formed this system in the first place.
There are plentl of .biz .org.net.us for everyone
to find a place and they can still add longer words if they wish.
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