Above: “Unleashing the global human imagination”: Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of ICANN.
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From another land rush
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.RIP
.Indians
.Goodhands
.Porn
.Republicans
.Orientexpress
.Transformers
.vermögensberater
.Yachts
.WangFeast thine eyes on the sprawling list of new domains here.But it seems to me that by and large, the relevance of this development has been blown out of proportion, and will by and large be a positive, somewhat flattening force on the internet. After all, the dominance of .com domains is beyond arbitrary, though the status quo will likely continue to reign in the wake of the gTDL deluge. It’s always been kind of a screwy function of the internet that digital property worked much like landed property—if you were able to snag Sex.com, it’d be like buying a plot of land you already knew sat atop an oil field. No prospecting necessary, just twitchy fingers. Check the creativity, the thoughtful enterprising; anyone with some capital could buy up domains with high-traffic potential—and that’s exactly what they did.
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