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  thecaptain, 5 Dec 2005 @ 10:40am

  
  

  Missing the point

  ICANN either needs to figure out how to let any TLD work, or stop adding these useless ones.

  No. They don't. You mentionned it but missed the point. The way things are NOW generate a LOT of revenue for ICANN. Why would they change a situation that (while admittedly stupid) generates them sizeable income, to a situation that (while being practical) generates them a lot LESS income? ICANN's purpose isn't to make sense, or serve YOU better...no matter what the motto displayed is. ICANN's purpose is to make money hand over fist...and if that means they can make more money by doing something stupid rather than helpful, guess what? They aren't going to be helpful.

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    lanthus, 5 Dec 2005 @ 11:53am

    
    

    Re: Missing the point

    ICANN is Non-Profit.

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      Rick, 5 Dec 2005 @ 12:09pm

      
      

      Re: Missing the point

      Yes, they are, but their relationship with Network Solutions is embarrassingly close. Regardless of what domain names they add, NetSol gets a piece of it as the operators of the root servers. So, getting people to buy *more* domain names is better for them than getting people to buy *better* domain names.

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        thecaptain, 5 Dec 2005 @ 12:39pm

        
        

        Re: Missing the point

        Also non-profit does not mean their CEO and al. work pro-bono if you know what I mean?
        
        Non-profit only means that at the end of the day, there's no money left.

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  giafly, 5 Dec 2005 @ 11:08am

  
  

  Forced Puns Dept

  A good place to discuss ICANN's naming problems would be tld.aph.asia

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  Howard, 5 Dec 2005 @ 11:28am

  
  

  If they REALLY wanted to make lots of money...

  If they REALLY wanted to make lots of money, they could do something useful like create 50 new domain names like .USAK, .USAL, .USAR, (or .AKUS, .ALUS...) etc. for the 50 US states. I might even sign up for a .USTX (or .TXUS) domain, since a couple of my businesses are strictly local in nature.
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    thecaptain, 5 Dec 2005 @ 11:53am

    
    

    Re: If they REALLY wanted to make lots of money...

    Well see, they will if they can come up with a plausible reason to, so far they haven't.
    
    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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  Steve, 6 Dec 2005 @ 5:35am

  
  

  I'm confused

  Whats the point of the www. and the .com, or .net
  
  
  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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    todd, 10 Dec 2005 @ 11:06pm

    
    

    Re: I'm confused

    adding new ones just alienates the rest of the computer users from the free flow of info.

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    todd, 10 Dec 2005 @ 11:12pm

    
    

    Re: I'm confused

    Also adding .eu and .asia and . whatever just decreases the value of everyones .com plus anyone can buy .com but americans are at loss because we wont be free to buy .eu or .asia unless we form a charity or bussiness in asia or eu. That is totally unfair for icann to do as we
    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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