FAO: Jamie

[P4554T]

I have been reading a lot about the relaxtion of the rules regarding domains.

My understanding is that I may be able to register www.happy.passat? or something more suitable to my industry?

We own quite few trademarks, so I suppose that I could put a suffix in front and use the trademark as the ending?

[JamieBeeston]

P4554T said:

I have been reading a lot about the relaxtion of the rules regarding domains.

My understanding is that I may be able to register www.happy.passat? or something more suitable to my industry?

We own quite few trademarks, so I suppose that I could put a suffix in front and use the trademark as the ending?

Erm, nothing like that that i've heard of..

At present you can only register domain.gtld/cctld (global or country code) ie .com .cn .ie etc

Not heard anything about .whateveryoulike as someone would need to setup the registry to respond to .whateveryoulike

Do you have a link so I can look over it?

J

[jamieboy]

Link here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9975757-7.html

There was a big piece on BBC News about it this morning.

[The Excession]

Excellent, before anyone else thinks of it I'm blagging "big.tits" - you read it here first.

[JamieBeeston]

Hmm, interesting.

I've been down with Tonsillitis all week, so not been looking at anything (Even my own birthday y-day )

~$50k for a Unique TLD.. that's going to be a big seller I can see..

Goes to my point about the Registry needing to be config'd for it though, for $50k they can add a few lines of code I'm sure

Expect to see people reselling domains from these (ie some entrepreneurial chap registers .rocks and sells people "anything".rocks) but as for people registering their own.. only for the well off

J

[oggs]

JamieBeeston said:

I've been down with Tonsillitis all week, so not been looking at anything (Even my own birthday y-day )

[Podie]

JamieBeeston said:

I've been down with Tonsillitis all week, so not been looking at anything (Even my own birthday y-day )

Smoke the Fidel... kill or cure..

[jamieboy]

JamieBeeston said:

~$50k for a Unique TLD.. that's going to be a big seller I can see..
...
Expect to see people reselling domains from these (ie some entrepreneurial chap registers .rocks and sells people "anything".rocks) but as for people registering their own.. only for the well off

J

Not a big seller for most of us on here, but one of the examples they gave was Tesco.

www.groceries.tesco, or www.tesco.everylittlehelps, etc.

[JamieBeeston]

Podie said:

JamieBeeston said:

I've been down with Tonsillitis all week, so not been looking at anything (Even my own birthday y-day )

Smoke the Fidel... kill or cure..

aching to try one out as well!

[JamieBeeston]

jamieboy said:

JamieBeeston said:

~$50k for a Unique TLD.. that's going to be a big seller I can see..
...
Expect to see people reselling domains from these (ie some entrepreneurial chap registers .rocks and sells people "anything".rocks) but as for people registering their own.. only for the well off

J

Not a big seller for most of us on here, but one of the examples they gave was Tesco.

www.groceries.tesco, or www.tesco.everylittlehelps, etc.

but why type

www.groceries.tesco

when
tesco.co.uk is much easier


it'd work for

mail.google
search.google
froogle.google
worlddomination.google
ads.google
www.google

but the appeal is rather limited in that scope.. imho it's just a way for ICANN to raise a few hundred Million$ whilst people speculate on .ishard .rocks .sex .pron .donkey .drugs .ferrari .lamborghini .astonmartin blah blah blah each at $50k a punt!

[jamieboy]

JamieBeeston said:

but why type

www.groceries.tesco

when
tesco.co.uk is much easier


it'd work for

mail.google
search.google
froogle.google
worlddomination.google
ads.google
www.google

but the appeal is rather limited in that scope.. imho it's just a way for ICANN to raise a few hundred Million$ whilst people speculate on .ishard .rocks .sex .pron .donkey .drugs .ferrari .lamborghini .astonmartin blah blah blah each at $50k a punt!

Actually, I might have had it the wrong way round - it might have been tesco.groceries. Allowing organic.groceries, cheap.groceries, homedelivery.groceries, etc.


edit because I messed the quotes up badly.

Edited by jamieboy on Thursday 26th June 14:01

[JamieBeeston]

but then why would tesco buy in to someone elses.. and why would you bother with the kefuffle of having to type in each different one, when you could just click the "organic" link

Like most things, it's not totally useless, but it is totally driven by greed from another not for profit like nominet.

[jamieboy]

JamieBeeston said:

but then why would tesco buy in to someone elses.. and why would you bother with the kefuffle of having to type in each different one, when you could just click the "organic" link

Like most things, it's not totally useless, but it is totally driven by greed from another not for profit like nominet.

They wouldn't - they'd 'own' the .groceries TLD.

You might be right about the motivation, but maybe the people proposing it have spent more than an hour thinking about the possible benefits? Actually, that's maybe wishful thinking.

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

jamieboy said:

...but maybe the people proposing it have spent more than an hour thinking about the possible benefits? Actually, that's maybe wishful thinking.

You can bet they've thought for more than an hour on the possible income. Daft idea.

You have a company name called blahblah ltd. What would you guess the company url to be? blahblah.com then .co.uk probably. blahblah.phones for example? Nope. It's a bit like ltd.uk etc. Waste of money and unless your nicely in a search engine, few people are going to find you.

[heyuk]

The .anything is not quite .anything as the press would have you believe. There is a pile of policy that has to be approved plus as well as 'registering' the .whatever you need a business plan and ability to run a registry.

That means you provide .whatever to other people as well , so in theory you could register ihate.tesco

Its not really large news as they are making out, I am guessing there was a mis-understood report of it somewhere as its grown from man-in-street regging his.surname for a tenner...

.com / .co.uk will rule the UK for a good while yet

[bingbong]

heyuk said:

The .anything is not quite .anything as the press would have you believe. There is a pile of policy that has to be approved plus as well as 'registering' the .whatever you need a business plan and ability to run a registry.

That means you provide .whatever to other people as well , so in theory you could register ihate.tesco

Its not really large news as they are making out, I am guessing there was a mis-understood report of it somewhere as its grown from man-in-street regging his.surname for a tenner...

.com / .co.uk will rule the UK for a good while yet

That makes a lot more sense