ICANN Big Reveal

[administrator]

Nice to see the BBC spending the TV tax wisely by spending $185,000 or whatever it is to get a .bbc extension
Reveal Day 13 June 2012

Some interesting applications. Commonwealth Bank of Australia is a good one - would like to have www.really.cba

No idea why Google would want .lol

Lots of submissions for .ltd as well as a few other generics.

[MarillionFan]

Nice to see the BBC spending the TV tax wisely by spending $185,000 or whatever it is to get a .bbc extension
Reveal Day 13 June 2012

Some interesting applications. Commonwealth Bank of Australia is a good one - would like to have www.really.cba

No idea why Google would want .lol

Lots of submissions for .ltd as well as a few other generics.

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[AtW]

No .CUK?

[administrator]

???

If you're not into IT in any way then not likely to be of interest I guess. Is just ICANN opening up the .tld space to new applications so as well as .com and country specific tlds (like .co.uk) people can apply for their own .whatever. If this is too confusing just head back to the all you can eat buffet and you will be OK

No .CUK?

Thought about one for Freelance UK for a while but chickened out

Thought your pockets might have been deep enough to go for .seo! Surprised no-one went for that one.

[AtW]

Thought your pockets might have been deep enough to go for .seo! Surprised no-one went for that one.

Yeah, me too.

Suprised...

[vetran]

No idea why Google would want .lol

Lots Of Links?

Wouldn't M$ go for MSFT as well? I see stock exchange listings being popular.

[NickFitz]

If the BBC don't get it, some other ****er will and fill it with porn.

This is why ICANN have faced accusations of using the opening of the TLD namespace as a money grubbing exercise: plenty of organisations simply can't allow their names to be turned into a TLD controlled by somebody else, so they're forced to bid for them. Hence the presence of .microsoft, .ibm, .apple, and other broadcasters such as .canalplus, along with exotica such as .landrover

Let's face it, if in a year's time searches for BBC programmes were throwing up donkey porn, you'd be complaining about the BBC not having grabbed the TLD when they had the chance.

On a related note: the reason the BBC Micro was always officially called the British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System was that Brown Bouverie Corporation, a Swiss multinational conglomerate holding company that had the European (though not the UK) trademark to "BBC", threatened to sue if they called it the BBC Micro other than in the UK, and as the BBC hoped to sell it in the rest of Europe they had to change the name.

Totally unrelated: a third party company produced a version of the BBC BASIC ROM in which all the BASIC keywords were replaced by their Welsh equivalents, allowing Welsh schoolchildren to write Lunar Lander in a language as close to Welsh as BASIC is to English; despite having the blessing of the British Broadcasting Corporation, sales were few.

[Freamon]

No idea why Google would want .lol

Youtube?

[SupremeSpod]

Duw, duw. There's tidy then, bach.

And I bet all the sales were in the far far north-west, where the pretentious ex-scousers now live.

ftfy.