There's like 1500 TLDs, now some of them are restricted and country-code TLDs but now it makes me wonder how much it would actual cost per year to maintain registration of every non-restricted TLD. I'm sure theres some SaaS company that'll do it.

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saghm 4 days ago | parent [-]

OTOH, doesn't ICANN already sometimes restrict who has access to a given TLD? Would it really be that crazy for them to say "maybe we shouldn't let registrars sell npm.<TLD> regardless of the TLD", and likewise for a couple dozen of the most obvious targets (google., amazon., etc.)? No one needs to pay for these domains if no one is selling them in the first place. I don't love the idea of special treatment for giant companies in terms of domains, but we're already kind of there with the whole process they did when initially allowing companies to compete for exclusive access to TLDs, so we might as well use that process for something actually useful (unlike, say, letting companies apply for exclusive ownership of ".music" and have a whole legal process to determine that maybe that isn't actually beneficial for the internet as whole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.music)

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VectorLock 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

The TLDs run the whole gamut from completely open to almost impossible to get.

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ohdeargodno 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>maybe we shouldn't let registrars sell npm.<TLD> regardless of the TLD

Cool, get big enough, become friends with the right people and you can squat an entire name on the internet. What, you're the Nepalese Party for Marxists, you've existed for 70 years and you want to buy npm.np ? Nope, tough luck, some random dude pushes shitty javascript packages over there. Sorry for the existing npm.org address too, we're going to expropriate the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Dare I remind you that the whole left-pad situation was because Kik, the company, stole (with NPM's assistance because they were big enough and friends with the right people) the kik package ?

At least they're paying dozens of millions to buy a shitty ass .google that noone cares about because more and more browsers are hiding the URL bar. I'm glad ICANN can use it to buy drinks, hookers instead of being useful.

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jjani 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Dare I remind you that the whole left-pad situation was because Kik, the company, stole (with NPM's assistance because they were big enough and friends with the right people) the kik package ?

And then never even did anything with it.

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saghm 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Cool, get big enough, become friends with the right people and you can squat an entire name on the internet. What, you're the Nepalese Party for Marxists, you've existed for 70 years and you want to buy npm.np ?

I think you and I have drastically different ideas about how dramatic a response is warranted by the scenario of needing to buy a domain with a different three letters or maybe even four or more letters before the TLD.

> Dare I remind you that the whole left-pad situation was because Kik, the company, stole (with NPM's assistance because they were big enough and friends with the right people) the kik package ?

...and then the package was entirely removed, which would have been preventable by sane policies around making removal just not allow new dependencies to use it. You're also conflating a resource that's ostensibly free and perpetual for people to claim with one that's only rented for fixed periods of time for money.

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