Great, as if it is hard enough to find what you are looking for on the web. Dibs on .1337

Since the author forgot, here's the link to see the official announcement:
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-26jun08-en.htm


Why extensions at all, this is just as stupid as the www. infront of every domain.
Why not simply declare a domain a single word without an extension at all.
And simply add something in front for subdomain, far more simple.

What is most impressive is that they (inq) and comments from Joe, actually managed to get the web server to display those characters.

Can you imagine how joe public (no pun intended) is going to cope.

I can really see that happing on high profile web domains (NOT).

Most people cant even spell .com let alone anything else....

This going to open the floodgates for site spoofing, can you imagine all the hate sites for example nvid.t*ssers....

The most useful ones would be .xxx & .scam

Any bets as to how soon Mageek takes the .world+dog domain?

I imagine that this decision will end in an uncontrollable snafu on a level that the internets never experienced before! You might think that they will be the ones to dig through 50 tons of sh17, but in the end we'll be the ones drowning in it.

I can already see the arbitration committee at work. Imagine someone in Germany starts a domain .dick to promote an obesity support group in Germany. Guess how long it takes for an enlightened torturer in Kansas to think about a penis and file a complaint.
Can ICANN I say.

Assuming that one would have the capability to buy up complete rights to a domain extension, I'll be rolling my dice on the .WTF extension. Long reaching application I'm sure.

These are the same frackers that did not allow .web but now release .domains to every Tom, Dick and Harry? MotherFrackers!

I assume you wanted the Chinese translation for sex. You just need the first character 性. The word you used means gender.