ICANN Backflips Again 94
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from the dance-for-me dept.
from the dance-for-me dept.
angry tapir writes "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has backflipped again on the process for evaluating applications for new generic top-level domains such as .bank and .lol. The proposal to evaluate applications in batches of 500 had been subject to criticism from registrars, particularly the 'digital archery' component, which would be used to determine which batch an application would be part of. Last month, ICANN scrapped digital archery altogether, and now ICANN has announced that it will seek simultaneous processing of all applications. The reason people were annoyed at the batching process was it meant that even if an application for a new domain was complete and correct, and even if a domain application was not contested by anyone else, it could end up going live years after other new TLDs did. Given it will cost over a couple of hundred grand to run a new TLD, people were upset. The whole gTLD process has been fraught with delays and security breaches."
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. (Score:1, Interesting)
Goodbye internet!
It was fun while it lasted. I will happily await the arrival of your replacement, just as BBS/Gopher/eWorld/AOL had its time apparently you've had yours as well. It's truly sad to see your demise brought about by a bunch of fucking monkeys who couldn't care less about your well being, so long as they're making more money off stupid shit nobody wants or needs.
Who's up for a nice cryptographically secure distributed DNS system that runs over IPv6?
-AC
Re:Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. (Score:5, Interesting)
DNS is not the Internet.
Unless you use this.
http://analogbit.com/tcp-over-dns_howto [analogbit.com]