Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-15 Thread Robert L Mathews
On 4/12/13 9:29 PM, Doug Barton wrote: Whatever criticisms you can lay at the feet of ICANN, especially in recent years, greed for new TLDs is not one of them. Hmmm. Many people would disagree with that, based on episodes like this:

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-15 Thread .
The Internet already have a problem with one of everything where a single provider is much more popular than the other ones. Amazon, Google, Reddit, Wikipedia...The 2th cooperative encyclopedia editing website is much less popular than Wikipedia. This is not a good thing, is a bad thing

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-15 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: . oscar.vi...@gmail.com What is the problem that people is trying to solve here? is this the correct place to solve it? Wow; really? The problem is Google isn't *quite* a monopoly, yet, and we'd like to be, even though that's evil. And the answer is no,

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-13 Thread Scott Weeks
I believe that unstoppable force is called the want of money. However, the pressure from the community was overwhelming to open up the process again, and continued unabated from a time even before the 2000 round was closed. Whatever criticisms you

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-12 Thread James M Keller
On 4/11/2013 3:56 PM, Oliver Garraux wrote: The whole custom TLD thing is just a truly awful, awful idea. Oliver - Oliver Garraux Check out my blog: blog.garraux.net Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/olivergarraux AOL 'go' words were cool the firs

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-12 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 4/11/13, Oliver Garraux oli...@g.garraux.net wrote: Agreed; but it would seem that unstoppable forces have been set into motion by ICANN, to cause it to happen, regardless of whether it is beneficial to the community, and regardless of any objections from the public... Yes... let a single

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Weeks
On 4/11/13, Oliver Garraux oli...@g.garraux.net wrote: The whole custom TLD thing is just a truly awful, awful idea. -- - mysi...@gmail.com wrote: --- From: Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com Agreed; but it would seem that

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-12 Thread joel jaeggli
On 4/12/13 3:41 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On 4/11/13, Oliver Garraux oli...@g.garraux.net wrote: Agreed; but it would seem that unstoppable forces have been set into motion by ICANN, to cause it to happen, regardless of whether it is beneficial to the community, and regardless of any objections

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-12 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Oliver Garraux oli...@g.garraux.net Subject: Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..? The whole custom TLD thing is just a truly awful, awful idea. Whether gTLD expansion is a good or bad idea (protip: good) is orthogonal to whether

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-12 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/12/2013 04:10 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: On 4/11/13, Oliver Garraux oli...@g.garraux.net wrote: The whole custom TLD thing is just a truly awful, awful idea. -- - mysi...@gmail.com wrote: --- From: Jimmy Hess

Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-11 Thread Warren Bailey
or Al Gore http://internets), and how would that be handled by most modern(ish) browsers and devices? http://m.gizmodo.com/5994354/google-wants-to-create-a-dotless-domain-called-search Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-11 Thread Joshua Goldbard
(cisco = http://routers or Al Gore http://internets), and how would that be handled by most modern(ish) browsers and devices? http://m.gizmodo.com/5994354/google-wants-to-create-a-dotless-domain-called-search Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called Search..?

2013-04-11 Thread Oliver Garraux
= http://routersor Al Gore http://internets), and how would that be handled by most modern(ish) browsers and devices? http://m.gizmodo.com/5994354/google-wants-to-create-a-dotless-domain-called-search Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device