Die ICANN Die
I’ve just read that ICANN has approved the plan to allow anyone to register their own generic TLD’s. Okay, there is still a very expensive process involved and you need to pass all sorts of technical examinations, but still. Those TLD’s may be up to 63 characters long, how ridiculous is that
Seriously, all this is going to cause is a flood of new exotic TLDs that nobody really wants to have. And in the end it’s only going to confuse people. Now a website can be .com, .net, .org, .info, or some country specific TLD - easy enough. But what happens when .thistldissolongitsclosetothelimitandyouwillneverrememberit is approved, along with dozens of other stupid TLDs? Sure, a good ones will probably be called into existence, but just allowing anything as long as it’s not offensive, the technical infrastructure is okay, and whoever requesting gives ICANN enough money is just ridiculous.
Apparantly one of the lame excuses for this is that the pool of available internet addresses is running out. Well ICANN, I have some news for you: IPv4 addresses are running out. Not DNS. Not IPv6 (which is FINALLY starting to show up a bit on the Interwebz).
Die ICANN, die.
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