An Open Letter to ICANN on the TLD.js Movement

http://wewantjs.org/

by dscape • 14 years ago

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alexpenny• 14 years ago

Can I vote to not have a .js TLD. It's pointless turning file extensions into TLD's.

ben0x539• 14 years ago

The perl guys got .pl, so let the javascript guys have .js!

koide2• 14 years ago

The polish guys got .pl. <Insert your pun related to polished code and Perl here>

koide2• 14 years ago

Two things:

1.- What do you want the .js TLD for?

2.- Do you really think a letter of this type will convince anybody? Reads too much like "we want this because we want this and thus we deserve it"

If you get it, good for you, I wouldn't actually mind, but I fail to see the importance or the actual need.

RossM• 14 years ago

What on earth is the purpose of a .js TLD? Is it so you can link to http://jquery.js instead? Seems like a minor convenience.

pacmon2• 14 years ago

While in theory I don't mind the idea of a .js TLD... This is a can of worms. Just think about all the other programming languages out there and how many other hackers for those would want their own TLD. Then let's expand that out for basically anything else. The question becomes - where do we stop?

wmf2• 14 years ago

We're way beyond that point. ICANN already allows effectively unlimited TLDs as long as they're three letters or longer. So far, thousands of new TLDs have been applied for.

pacmon2• 14 years ago

You're right. We already have started sliding down the slippery slope. So I guess the question is... Should we dig in our heels, or just ride it and see where it takes us?

It's certainly an interesting question. One I'm not qualified to answer.

dfc2• 14 years ago

More than two thousand gTLD applications have been submitted?

dscape• 14 years ago

"unlimited TLDs as long as they're three letters"

So unlimited permutations of [a-z]?

Sure that makes sense....

frou_dh• 14 years ago

What's next? Are digital artists going to demand ".png" because they feel a tremendous kinship with the alpha-channel?

h84ru3a• 14 years ago

If this is a hobbyist thing, as the letter says, then why not act like hobbyists? ICANN is primarily focused on domain names for profit. It's a business.

Here's how to set up your hobbyist .js TLD. First, run your own mirror copy of the internic root and add an entry for your authoritative .js server. Second, run a recursive server and prime it with your enhanced copy of the internic root. Finally, tell .js fans the IP of your recursive server. Voila, a new TLD for anyone that wants to use it. .js fans that want to use the TLD simply need to change their DNS settings to use your recursive server. The .js fans still get all the same TLD's everyone accepts as "ICANN-approved", plus they get the .js TLD. For those who don't want anything to do with this TLD (and prefer to endorse the ICANN protection racket approach to new gTLD's), this affects nothing. Unless they change their own DNS settings to use your recursive server, they will never see the .js domain. All clean. Zero pollution.

An Open Letter to ICANN on the TLD.js Movement

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