Why ICANN are a bunch of bumbling fools

drink.coke
buy.coke
love.coke
diet.coke
smoke.coke

fair call Will,

But now i pretty much know if I type “coke.com” or “cocacola.com” into my address bar, I’m going to end up at the Coke website.

Buggered if I’m going to remember those addresses.

If Coca Cola owned all of the .coke addresses then I guess it wouldn’t matter which you typed in. All you would have to remember is “coke”.

Yeah - and I’ve got to remember those TLD’s for every company’s website?

Can’t see it working personally.

I dunno. Sounds like you’re making a great point. I do know however, that, all of this .coke talk is making me want one! Seriously, it sounds like it will be a big mess not just for us…but for the companies too, may not last long. Let’s hope. Cool site.

As long as you know a company name then that’s enough. No need to remember coke.com as anything.coke would do. It’s actually less to remember!

But what about my Microsoft example above?

Multiply that by thousands of organisatoins….too freaking hard for me.

Money is the most important thing for them so if its even crap.microsoft whats their problem they are going to get their share right

Stuart! I agree with you completely. ICANN is just looking to make extra money. Unfortunately they’ve chosen a path that is going to make the internet much more confusing!

My comments are spam?

Ok that one went through, I lost a good one yesterday though as your site told me it was spam.

Any thoughts?

Hmm,

Actually, I think this whole confusion thing started with the likes of:

.info
.biz
.name etc

and has only worsened with the likes of .travel.

IMHO, I can’t see it making much of an impact.

Wow! That is an extensive list. I love your site. Keep up the good work.

What I had heard is the ICANN are running out of domain names and within a short period of time no domains with the current extensions will be available. I agree this is not a great option and I can see alot of confusion which happens already with .com, .net, .info and so on. But what other options are there. The issue I see is companies owning thousands of domains for speculation nothing else, try to register any 3 or 4 random letter combination as a domain and it is gone. Should business ownership or registration be connected to a domain name giving you and you only rights to it? I am not sure what the best direction is here but I am sure ICANN would like suggestions on what would work better.

It really makes no sense if you look at it objectively. Why would you want to repeat the name of your company twice in a url. I feel it make more sense to stick to the .com and .org and .edu to describe the sites.

Yeah this is just silly. I think if they go threw this, it will create confusion

This seems to be dividing the internet into haves and have nots. With the proposed cost of registering these fancy domains it would beyond the reach of ordinary people. Web 2.0 is all about giving the power of the internet back to the people, though this will do just the reverse.

I agree this is not a great option and I can see alot of confusion which happens already with .com, .net, .info and so on. But what other options are there. The issue I see is companies owning thousands of domains for speculation nothing else, try to register any 3 or 4 random letter combination as a domain and it is gone. Should business ownership or registration be connected to a domain name giving you and you only rights to it? I am not sure what the best direction is here but I am sure ICANN would like suggestions on what would work better.