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0 pointsobituary_latte14y ago0 comments

OK, sorry. But it greatly increases the surface area, no?

Would you say it really isn't an issue?

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icebraining14y ago· 2 in thread

I think the vector itself is an issue; but I don't think this will make it significantly worse. For any domain, there's already hundreds or thousands of possible similar domains across the existing TLDs - adding a few more TLDs won't make much of a difference.

I also doubt that the future owner of .shoes - whoever that may be - will be stupid enough to devalue his own TLD by selling second-level domains like candy. There's probably more money to be made by banking on its exclusivity.

obituary_latteOP14y ago

True, there are tons of similar TLD's out there already. But this ins't a "few more TLDs". This is ~2,000 new TLD's.

Indeed, 'shoes' was a bad example. But many of these new TLD's have been applied for by entities who plan on sub-letting the TLD to others.

icebraining14y ago

This is ~2,000 new TLD's.

No, this is ~2000 TLD applications. We have no idea how many of those will ICANN approve.

But many of these new TLD's have been applied for by entities who plan on sub-letting the TLD to others.

My point wasn't that they won't sell domains, but that many or most won't sell them to any random shmoe like .com/.net/etc are sold, but only to businesses in the fields and how are willing to pay a lot more for the privilege, which doesn't describe scammers.

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