Legend Zero Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/31/google-applies-for-google-youtube-and-lol-top-level-domains/ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hT5U_-goefmlUcd-vepXwH5GN9FA?docId=53817dab266e416fa1e0dc064ea890a3 [quote]If Google has its way, you won't need to type "Google.com" any more to do your searches. You can simply access the search engine at ".Google." Google's bid for ".Google" as an Internet suffix is among about 2,000 proposals submitted as part of the largest expansion of the Internet address system since its creation in the 1980s. Google Inc. also wants to add ".YouTube" and ".lol" — the digital shorthand for "laugh out loud." Others want approval for ".doctor," ''.music" and ".bank." If approved, the new suffixes would rival ".com" and about 300 others now in use. Companies would be able to create separate websites and separate addresses for each of their products and brands, for instance, even as they keep their existing ".com" name. One day, you might go to "comedy.YouTube" rather than "YouTube.com/comedy."[/quote] I find this to be pretty cool stuff. Though, I'll be so confused initially. =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tentacruel Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 I fail to see the point, unless the / character is evil or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ENMaker Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Seems absolutely pointless. Why can't you just type in *gasp* Google, or YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, YCM, whatever into the f*cking search bar? It's a terrible idea that would only lead to confusion amongst the technologically impaired, and also among everyone used to using the internet the normal way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Starrk Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 I'm cool with this. It would make things a bit faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cin Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 A bit pointless, there's not much point to it, but they can knock themselves up with silly things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raine Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 I WANT TO RENAME THE ALL THE STARS IN THE LOCAL CLUSTER! ...it won't do anything and just make people have to relearn what the sun's called... but I'm googl- I mean, Raine, we're so rich and popular we can do what we want. Same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poc Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 not as pointless as it seems, there is only so many names you can register under .com (although its a pretty damm big number) plus it breaks the .com monopoly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icy Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote name='Poc' timestamp='1339620248' post='5956488'] not as pointless as it seems, there is only so many names you can register under .com (although its a pretty damm big number) plus it breaks the .com monopoly. [/quote] I sorta agree with this? Yes there is only so many names associated with a particular URL type that can go under any domain suffix, however therein lies a problem. Allowing an individual company to have their own like [font=courier new,courier,monospace].youtube[/font] or [font=courier new,courier,monospace].google[/font] would create it's own problems as well. Google, while the best (debatable if you get around) search engine and Youtube being the more socially known media upload sites are far from the only and will be far from the last. Granting them such a thing would just create a further monopoly over the whole scheme unless they do something to their company that would not warrant fear of massive overtaking. But adding a little more specific suffixes like[font=courier new,courier,monospace] .bank[/font] and [font=courier new,courier,monospace].college/university[/font] would prove useful in at least cutting the clutter by a small percentage. But what possible feature could you gain from[font=courier new,courier,monospace] .lol[/font] ? Comedy websites? I'd reckon those could stay at[font=courier new,courier,monospace] .com/org[/font] and it wouldn't present any sort of problem... ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Expelsword Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 What ever happened to that .xxx domain? *shot* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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