<story><title>.tel, .xxx and .mobi are all pointless and idiotic</title><url>http://blog.tommorris.org/post/3968125126/tel-xxx-and-mobi-are-all-pointless-and-idiotic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duskwuff</author><text>I&apos;d go a step further and suggest that &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; of the new gTLDs are pointless and idiotic:&lt;p&gt;- .aero: if IATA airport codes were all registered domains here, it might be useful, but they aren&apos;t, so it isn&apos;t.&lt;p&gt;- .asia: asia is definitely a country &amp;#60;/sarcasm&amp;#62;&lt;p&gt;- .biz: sufficiently stupid that SpamAssassin has a rule for it&lt;p&gt;- .cat: meow? seriously, I&apos;ve only seen this used for vanity joke domains&lt;p&gt;- .coop: there isn&apos;t a .llc, why is this any different?&lt;p&gt;- .info: happy fun SEO land&lt;p&gt;- .jobs: pity they won&apos;t take my registration for Blow, Inc.&lt;p&gt;- .mobi: as noted&lt;p&gt;- .museum: 1138 registered domains in 10 years is a sign of true irrelevance&lt;p&gt;- .name: personal names are hardly unique identifiers&lt;p&gt;- .pro: stupid hierarchy makes this one even more useless than you&apos;d think&lt;p&gt;- .tel: as noted&lt;p&gt;- .travel: because .aero just wasn&apos;t enough&lt;p&gt;- .xxx: as noted&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I&apos;m just not seeing the possibilities, but I suspect that there&apos;s no future for any of the gTLDs beyond com/net/org, and possibly a few of the up-and-coming IDN gTLDs. The future of domain names is really in better unique names, not a more complex hierarchy.</text></comment>
<story><title>.tel, .xxx and .mobi are all pointless and idiotic</title><url>http://blog.tommorris.org/post/3968125126/tel-xxx-and-mobi-are-all-pointless-and-idiotic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kragen</author><text>&amp;#62; Politically, we should push for an actual democratic version of ICANN, and get a bunch of wise Unix neckbeard types to join and require all TLDs to get a supermajority vote of ICANN or a future counterpart to ICANN.&lt;p&gt;Karl Auerbach was the wise Unix neckbeard type who was on ICANN&apos;s board for a while.  You can read about his efforts to create ICANN transparency: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Auerbach&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Auerbach&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>