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.Asia Internet Domain Launched 203
eldavojohn writes "Expect to see sites ending in .asia pop up soon, as ICANN has allowed DotAsia to recently open bidding on the new domain. A DotAsia representative is quoted as saying, 'Our research has found that Asia is one of the most searched-for terms and by having a .asia website, your ranking on Google or Yahoo will become much higher.' Is there really a need for more top level domains?"
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127.0.0.1 *.tv
127.0.0.1 *.ru
127.0.0.1 *.asia
Yep, you're right.
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(Sorry, couldn't help it)
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Soviet Slashdot (Score:2)
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I thought the host file didn't accept wildcards...
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Why is it that such a large section of the planet seemingly churns out nothing but garbage? You would think at some point some of these ISPs (or even the governments of the countries in that region) would get the idea in their heads that if the entire region is flooding the rest of the world with shit, they may find themselves completely cut off f
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Why is it that such a large section of the planet seemingly churns out nothing but garbage?
Kudos, you sound just like that new Pope that was part of the Hitler youth.
to have any shot at reaching the rest of the world.
Not everyone is blocking .asia. Try asking the average American consumer of home internet service how to block content of any kind from any domain. They don't know how.
if the entire region is flooding the rest of the world with shit, they may find themselves completely cut off from the rest of the world by admins who have better things to do than ban individual IPs all day every day.
I love it when computer administrators like to make it sound like they're going to change the world from their desk. "You just watch ... I'll ban your IP. Then see how you like it when nobody from the 40 employee company I work for reads your spam!"
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Re:need? (Score:4, Insightful)
Having more TLDs gives people a bigger namespace to play in, but the problem is people don't generally want a bigger name space for domain names. They want their domain name to be unique, for recognition and to avoid confusion...
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I don't care if a name is recognizable. I use google when I don't remember exactly where something is at.
Re:need? (Score:4, Interesting)
Put another way, what value are we getting out of more TLDs? More sites can share the same name? Is that really something we want?
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Your point is taken well. TLD's are not just "TLDs". They've become part and parcel with trademarked names and company names. No,no, no. It's not Expedia... it's Expedia[dot]COM. Etc. Companies scramble to register their business names onl
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No.
Karl Denninger and Paul Vixie looked at this in the 80s. There can be a million tlds and it won't make any impace. Keep in mind in the day they were worried about a million names in
Nevermind the need, they got the term wrong (Score:2, Funny)
In a word... (Score:2, Informative)
No!
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You mean "no, Network Solutions should retain its de facto monopoly as a registry" I presume?
Fixed... (Score:2, Funny)
Who can tell? (Score:5, Funny)
How about (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:How about (Score:5, Informative)
If it's a commercial website it's fine in
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Unfortunately it would probably get to the point where someone wants a ".africanorthamericaasia" TLD because they're active in all three, but someone else thinks that ".africaeuropeasia" would be better because that's where they cover.
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That's pretty much the way it is, but it's not a good system. There's no way of resolving disputes over names, which leads to domain squatting. I'd really like to see the end of all TLDs except for country codes. You want a virtual presence in the US? Register "here-i-am.us". You want to be in China? Register "here-i-am.cn". You want a virtual presence in every country?
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Brilliant! So the next time Pakistan and India get into a diplomatic scuffle bordering on nuclear war, India can invalidate the domain registrations of every Pakistani company, and Pakistan can follow suite, and tens of thousands of businesses and
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You seem to be under the assumption that there is a neutral third-party somewhere.
Besides, I don't actually see a problem of "domain wars" where one country invalidates foreign domains within its own country code. Say India gets pissed at Pakistan and revokes all the "pakistani-companies.in" domains. And Pakistan does the same, revoking all "indian-comp
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Someone better tell... (Score:2)
Although I would support maybe the following domain names:
HeatoftheMoment.Asia
TheSmileHasLeftYourEyes.Asia
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Of course you shouldn't be ashamed... after all, you did it in the heat of the moment...
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They should follow it up with a
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I was driving to the grocery store the other night, listening to a classic rock radio station, all the while thinking, "They shouldn't be playing music that I remember being brand new, what seemed not that long ago." Middle age - it's an odd sensation.
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TheSmileHasLeftYourEyes.Asia
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I just called it "Yes, Lake and Palmer"
quick (Score:3, Funny)
Heat-of-the-Moment.Asia
Dont-Cry.Asia
Alpha.Asia
and perhaps:
Carrera.Asia
Argento.Asia
you can thank me later
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Better yet porn.asia
Seriously, this one is gonna be worth millions..
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euthan.asia
anast.asia
fant.asia
d-.asia/vu
you win (Score:2)
too small? (Score:2)
"You're thinking too small"
You obviously haven't seen Asia Carrera's [asiacarrera.com] breasts?Re: (Score:3, Informative)
Re:quick (Score:5, Funny)
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You like Asia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCoeDeFZ-ns [youtube.com]
Reverse the question.... (Score:2, Redundant)
Is there some sort of limit where too many top level domains break something?
Because if not, I really don't see the point in worrying about whether we 'need' another top level domain or not. Having more top level domains means more chances that when you look at something, having its domain name can actually tell you something.
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This likely won't be an issue with dot-asia domains, but it is a reason not to add a bunch more TLDs to the already fairly meaningless list.
In other news. . . (Score:5, Funny)
or . . .
In other news, insensitive clods still refer to new TLD as "dot-orientals".
Stupid.
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I hate life
First dibs (Score:4, Funny)
Also relatively rapid post!
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The possibilities! (Score:4, Insightful)
More interestingly, though, will be the issue when countries fail to establish control over things like india.asia, china.asia, etc. I have to wonder, though: given the "worldwide" attitude of the web, do we really need to make geographic distinctions at the TLD?
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You know Disney will want fant.asia...
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Hmmm.... (Score:4, Funny)
Then came back here figuring the same comment had already been made, but people seem to have jumped on references to the 80's band instead.
And now you find yourself in 82. The disco hot spots hold no charm for you.
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Change your name to Euthan and become "Euthan the Magnificent, Master of Technology." Voila! Trademark and you're done.
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meh... (Score:5, Funny)
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Sorry, not at this time, but check back shortly.
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But where would midget porn go? .xxx or .midget? I think we'll need a .midget-xxx TLD before too long.
And if you think .asia is a bad domain name... (Score:4, Interesting)
"sex.asia" could not be found. (Score:2)
If this page used to exist, you may find an archived version:
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No thanks (Score:3, Funny)
I'll wait for .antarctica to become available.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=site:aq [google.com]
Great, next we need. (Score:3, Interesting)
Anything else I'm missing? Why not just start using degrees latitude and longitude in the tlds as well, just because we want as many as possible, right?
how about .slash? (Score:2)
Jolyon
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It's worrying what you find out people write when your wife is involved in Harry Potter fanfiction 8|
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Point of trivia: ".dot" was the very first alternative TLD, it came up on the usenet II (nee BOFH) newsgroup mailing list. I pointed slash.dot to slashdot for ages but nobody ever used it. This was about 10 years ago
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Maybe the people who live between .ca and .mx can start using .us instead of poluting .com with non-commercial or non-USA websites (if you care about using the most meaningful TLD)
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search / TLD (Score:3, Insightful)
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So, "foo site:asia" as a google search term would find occurences of "foo" in sites with a
(This is handy and fun when you look at "site:gov" stuff)
Search Terms... (Score:4, Insightful)
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
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Just the need... (Score:2)
- Create new TLD.
- Sell domain names to corporations again.
- ???
- Profit!
It's a good thing. For someone else.
My captcha for this post: 'proffer'. Damn, but he's good.
4 letter TLDs? (Score:2)
Whats next 5? How about an entire sentence..
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I realize that this isn't the *first* but i bet its the first widely used one, especially to designate a region as apposed to a function.
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Let's not forget ".museum" which led to such important names as "swiss.frog.museum" sadly now taken down, but archive.org remembers: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://swiss.frog.museum [archive.org]
Let's simplify it even more. (Score:2)
Need for domains (Score:2)
New domain! Free pr0n! (Score:2)
Eh, it's just a joke, it's not a real domain. Yet.
Do we need more... (Score:2)
Yes, there can always be more. We like MORE TLD's so domain squatters can spend MORE of their money on pointless domains up to the point it doesn't become profitable enough. Next to that, it's also easier to filter the net if you can tell Amavis to always add +5 to domains coming from asia, russia and china without having to query a freakin' GeoIP database.
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From the archives:
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But, a newly Bush appointed director of the commerce department got a phone call.
Turns out Karl Rove had got a letter from a large (read "powerful") south