ICANN Reveals Regional Winners of New gTLDs

hypnosec writes "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved and released a list of domain names as per its new global Top Level Domain plans. A total of 27 domain names have been cleared for use by ICANN, and all of them are non-English domain names. Consisting of Chinese and Arabic names, the list of domain names seems to be mostly for regional companies, prominent among which are the .Qatartelecom and .Mozaic domains."

Refreshing

[Anonymous Coward]

Perfect. Now I can launch my new imageboard muhammed.qatartelecom

Effort and time is not the same as accomplishment

[Anonymous Coward]

Announcing the development through a press release, ICANN reiterated the amount of efforts and time that have been spent for the development and implementation of policies to bring about innovation and diversity in the Domain Name System.

Further confirms that diversity is another word for stupidity.

Re:Effort and time is not the same as accomplishme

[Ubi_NL]

I thought it was just a cash grab operation by ICANN

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[Great Big Bird]

But they can do the both at the same time.

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[jones_supa]

Shouldn't an authority such as ICANN understand its responsibility and maintain a certain conservatism towards silly things like this?

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[John Napkintosh]

You're both right - set a precedent for approving TLDs for commercial entities under the auspices of diversity and then the floodgates are open.

My opinion

[Richy_T]

It's the beginning of the end of the current DNS system. About time too. The internet should never have tolerated such a centralized abomination

Re:My opinion

[MaraDNS]

I posted about this before [slashdot.org] and I will probably have to post this again: Where's this alternative to DNS everyone keeps talking about on Slashdot?

If you don't like that the ICANN is doing, (shameless plug) it's pretty easy [maradns.org] to download [maradns.org] and install [maradns.org] an open-source (BSD licensed) recursive DNS server (even on Windows [maradns.org]), then use the program to blacklist ICANN's new domains [maradns.org].

If you don't want to use my program, I am sure other DNS servers, such as Unbound [unbound.net] and BIND (which usually comes with Linux) have similar capabilities.

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[Candyban]

Even though is completely off topic, I find it important enough to react

I'm perfectly okay with my own culture, thank you. I'm happy with my world.

I am glad for you. Being happy is a bit of a lost trade.

I don't need some person's belief system or everyday methodologies because I don't have any desire to know anything about them

You are mixing desires and needs somehow. Without even suggesting you are either one but a heroine addict, a child molestor or a slave driver may be perectly fine with their worlds but it does not mean they do not need to consider a change in lifestyle.
I am not saying you should adopt someone elses beliefs or convictions; but it does not sound like you are making a lot of educa

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[someones]

You sir just made my day

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[fikx]

You mean like the centralized distribution of IP addresses?

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[Richy_T]

Possibly.

To see actual results

[Anonymous Coward]

To see approved domain names, click on the first link, select IE Result from the Search By Field, and then select Pass from the drop down and search. Else you get a huge list of everything.

Re:To see actual results

[Anonymous Coward]

The 27 are (and I'm not joking), including what Google Translate makes of it:

  (= Fashion in Japanese)
  (= Group in Chinese)
  (= Network in Arabic)
  (= One shop in Chinese)
  (Kerry Hotel in Chinese)
  (Kerry in Chinese)
vermögensberater (asset consultant in German)
  (Shop in Chinese)
  (Amazon in Japanese)
  (Website in Chinese)
  (Catholic in Arabic)
  (Catholic church in Chinese)
  (Store in Japanese)
  (World in Chinese)
  (CITIC in Chinese)
  (Website in Chinese)
  (Arabs in Arabic)
  (Com in Hindi)
  (Shangri-La in Chinese)
  (Mosaic in Arabic)
  (Qtel in Arabic)
  (Gossip in Chinese)
  (Point of view in Chinese)
  (site in Russian)
  (online in Russian)
  (Great to take in Chinese)
  (Store in Chinese)

You're welcome.
Feel free to correct the translations if you're a native speaker. ;)

Re:To see actual results

[Anonymous Coward]

And now posted to Pastebin.com, because Slashdot can't handle awesomeness:
http://pastebin.com/tUruZvCN [pastebin.com]

I had to wait 6 minutes before I could post this, by the way. Slashdot told me:
"You must wait a little bit (6 minutes) before using this resource; please try again later."

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[flimflammer]

I really wonder why slashdot has not embraced Unicode characters yet. Seems almost embarrassing for a tech site in this day and age.

Hoarding

[ChrisSlicks]

Of the 1930 total applications, 307 are from a single company "Donuts" (donuts.co) using a boat load of Delaware shelf companies.

Hoard much?

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[Megahard]

I think you mean Delaware shell companies. The shells grow wild in the Delaware river so it's easy to just row out and harvest a boat load of them.

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[ChrisSlicks]

A shelf company is a form of shell company, one that is formed and left idle (on the shelf) for later reuse after an aging period. All the shells I looked up were over 1 year old. I'm sure they have older ones in their available inventory.

The REAL list

[DavidClarkeHR]

The actual list can be found by searching by IE results, and selecting pass. I'd post it here, but the character encoding won't display since most are english (or even english-ish).

great antispam, please try to send me some spam

[Nikademus]

I tried to even type an email using one of those TLD in this comment and failed, now explain me how that will work under other current software implementations. This is just a big fail, like most IDN. Anyone can type [a-Z], but not most of those TLDs.

Non-ASCII

[loosescrews]

As far as I can tell, not a single one of the new approved gTLDs can be written using standard ASCII, and only one of them can be written with Extended ASCII. While this does mean that there isn't a key on a standard US keyboard for every single letter in every one of these new gTLDs, there are (or at least a well-known key combination) in the countries which are the target market for these domains. With regard to SPAM, I think you will find that much (if not most) of it comes from non-US sources; places

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[Anonymous Coward]

I think the gp was referring to the punycode used for internationalized domain names. I believe all of them start with xn--

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[dkf]

As far as I can tell, not a single one of the new approved gTLDs can be written using standard ASCII

They can, provided you use the punycoded form [wikipedia.org]. It's very ugly, but works.

Re:great antispam, please try to send me some spam

[earthloop]

There are all ASCII in DNS:
Punycode [wikipedia.org]

Only IPv6 can accommodate all this

[unixisc]

I can only see this new extension work w/ IPv6, which will probably have all the address space for such contraptions. If they try using these w/ IPv4, they'll smoke whatever is left - with NAT - and then some.

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[dwye]

The non-ASCII IP names do not need IPv6, and they do not use either more or less IPv4 address space. Names are orthogonal to numbers.

OTOH, I rather doubt that there is any IPv4-only DNS/bind implementation that handles unicode names, nor do I expect a getipnodebyname() that handles them, unless it is IPv6-ready, as well.

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[unixisc]

I know that names are orthogonal to numbers. What I meant is that if the number of TLDs are proliferated, in addition to the websites and virtual websites that exist today, then only IPv6 has the number of addresses to accommodate all of that - IPv4 doesn't. It has nothing to do w/ whether the names themselves are ASCII or Unicode.

What's wrong w/ Unicode?

[unixisc]

Well, since the bulk of these are there to support foreign language sites, there is no way ASCII could possibly support it. Not all the internet is made for worldwide consumption. How often do you visit Mandarin or Arabic sites? But keyboards made that support Unicode would have no problems typing these.

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[AmiMoJo]

Actually due to the lack of IDN a lot of Chinese sites are just numbers, e.g. 858735.com. They treat it like a phone number. Not everyone can get on with Latin characters.

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[dwye]

Not everyone can get on with Latin characters.

But they can with Indo-arabic numerals?

Blacklists

[LMariachi]

Making this information public is kind of counterproductive (for them, not us,) as now everyone has a handy addition to paste into their spam blacklists, right after '*.info'.

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[dwye]

Only if they can enter them into the blacklists :-)

Besides, most botnets don't have to infect these domains, as enough US PCs are infected (as are enough Western European, Japanese, Nigerian, etc.) to suffice.

Actually, I wonder if the botnets (as currently written) COULD infect these non-ASCII domain names? That might be an advantage to adding them.

list of 27

[Anonymous Coward]

Would be nice to see the list of the 27 without having to do any searching.

".vermögensberater"?

[Dr.Dubious DDQ]

Do people just plain never actually type URLs anymore? Where do I line up to get my "meinweltanshauungistganzherabgesetzt.vermögensberater" domain?

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[Briareos]

Yeah, I just threw up in my mouth a little when I read that - and I speak German as my first language and thought I could stomach everything.

Of all the words they could have chosen it absolutely has to be the sleaziest one besides "Anwalt"?

(No wait, "financial advisor" in this day and age might even surpass "lawyer" as the sleaziest one...)

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[fph il quozientatore]

*meineweltanschauungistganzherabgesetzt

(Grammar nazi jokes coming in 5,4,...)

About the hindi .com application...

[ashish3]

I checked and it was applied by VeriSign from Switzerland. And they say, and I quote, in their application "We anticipate that the availability of the DEVANAGARI_TRANSLITERATION_OF_.COM will greatly increase the appeal and value of internationalized addresses in India. Expanding the accessibility and functionality of these domain names to users worldwide is the primary benefit of all internationalized transliterations of .com." I am ROFL, at their lack of how Indians think and work. This falls along the lin

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[dwye]

You don't understand. Now the India-based companies will HAVE to buy the (.com in Hindi) domain names, or let them be bought by the people who would have bought a(n) (insert_India_company_here)_sucks.com domain and have their company names primarily linked with their hater sites. More money for VeriSign.