Dot-Word TLDs Further Delayed

benfrog writes "The security bug that has been stalling the 'dot-word TLD land grab' might be fixed, but ICANN says it needs another week 'to sift through its mountains of TAS logs, in order to figure out which applicants' data was visible to which other applicants.' Needless to say, some are less than thrilled about the further delay."

Re:Evolution

[vlueboy]

Annoying that to close the "convenience" loop, the *browsers* started redirecting dns misses to search engines, and that even a mistyped ping target no longer returns "unreachable" because your ISP is trying to advertise their own affiliates. This all meaning that even a *wrong* number is a *number* pointing to someone. That's like doing chat-roulette.

I got tired of manually changing my ISP's modem IPs to non-poisoned DNS, because once in a while failing to use DHCP ones results in complete loss of DNS for some reason.

Off on a tangent about how fake our root level and IPv4 progress is:
If I lived alone at home, I could undo all of these "nifty" features, but static IP settings often stop working with 30 days with my large ISP that I don't care to name. I've had to give up on IPv6 because tunnels were not trustworthy and turned flaky...
Due to flakiness I stopped looking into enigmatic alternative DNS services [wikipedia.org], though rumors of any life in OpenNic are greatly exaggerated (even .FUR is apparently extremely sparsely populated.) And the two total search engines for that thing aren't even OOG_THE_CAVEMAN approved.

So we see only TLD infrastructure changes actually making it to a browser near us, but little else in terms of paradigm changes. New standards take huge companies and OS makers to push, when they feel like it, and then it's a whole decade for adoption to actually kick in (we got approval for ditching IE6 support only months ago, while sardonically non-IE browsers all decided to stop graceful degradation as users switch to them.)

Re:Evolution

[Pseudonym Authority]

*browsers* started redirecting dns misses to search engines, and that even a mistyped ping target no longer returns "unreachable" because your ISP is trying to advertise their own affiliates.

The browser could not possible affect ping. The browser redirects URL's that are unreachable, but they cannot do anything about any thing other than that. This is the fault of your ISP (and if it was done by your ISP, your browser wouldn't see and error and wouldn't reject it anyway).

Off on a tangent about how fake our root level and IPv4 progress is:[...]

This is only for ``consumer'' grade internet. A simpler idea to get around this is to rent a VPS (I've seen them as low as 3$ per month) and install OpenVPS or some other proxy setup and route through that. As those are used to run largely automated commercial services, they wouldn't bother spamming their customers, as scripts don't care for ads either and broken scripts means broken sites, which means lost customers.

So we see only TLD infrastructure changes actually making it to a browser near us, but little else in terms of paradigm changes. New standards take huge companies and OS makers to push, when they feel like it, and then it's a whole decade for adoption to actually kick in (we got approval for ditching IE6 support only months ago, while sardonically non-IE browsers all decided to stop graceful degradation as users switch to them.)

ICANN's racketeering shenanigans have nothing to do with the browser.

Re:Evolution

[Anonymous Coward]

but it was the first to make it possible for non-geeks to find what they were looking for on the Internet.

Uh, yeah - no.

Google's results were exactly as shitty as everyone else's, for many years. What made Google a force was the simple fact that they didn't plaster ten metric megaasstons of bullshit all over their search page.

Bitter nerdrage led to geeks immediately switching to Google instead of shitty portal sites, and they told their families and friends, who for once listened to them - because fuck, people were on dialup, man - dialup! And Google, with nary an ad or news story to be seen, loaded quicker'n shit.