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Re:New top-level domains a money grab and a mistake: Paul Vixie by coldpie on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @09:04AM (#10457693)
Our IT guy has actually just blackholed all mail from any of the new TLDs. I don't know exactly what he did, but I suspect it's just a whitelist containing "TLDs from before the Great TLD Expansion." I don't think I've ever seen a legitimate website from one of the new TLDs, and to be honest I'm still suspicious of most country code TLDs.

The new TLDs are a massive problem disguised as a solution in search of a problem.

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Re:New top-level domains a money grab and a mistake: Paul Vixie by calinet6 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @09:41AM (#10457892)
They change almost nothing. We had many TLDs before, we have many TLDs now. Any system not designed to be resilient to many TLDs and multiple ways of reaching an IP is the real problem.
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Re:New top-level domains a money grab and a mistake: Paul Vixie by coldpie on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @09:45AM (#10457912)
There's some spectrum of legitimacy, perhaps unfair. When I see ".com" I know it's a website. When I see ".co" I think I'm being phished. When I see ".software" I'm confused. When I see ".ninja" I wonder what the heck is going on.

Who benefits?

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Re:New top-level domains a money grab and a mistake: Paul Vixie by icebraining on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @11:20AM (#10458520)
You, by forcing you to question your prejudices regarding TLDs?
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