ICANN ( the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ), the people responsible the IPv4 & IPv6 address space and the top-level domain ( TLDs ) space, are rolling out a large list of new top-level domains. Tired of being limited to the traditional .com / .net / .org and country domains? Soon you’ll have a bizarre set of new possibilities.
Here is a sample of what is coming:
.DOMAINS .RECIPES .NINJA .EMAIL .ZONE .MONASH .XYZ .FISH
Some of these have obvious categories, like .recipes for recipe web sites. Others I think are just random names people pulled out of a hat, like .ninja.
The title of this post, Dot Kitchen Sink, was meant to be a joke, but there is some truth to it. On the list of new TLDs is .kitchen, so you could have a joseph@sink.kitchen email address or joseph.kitchen/sink/ as a web site. Telling someone your email address in a voice conversation is only going to get harder.
Time to go all the way with dot.dot just to make things even more confusing 🙂
6 replies on “Dot Kitchen Sink”
I can’t wait to buy air.guitars…
Or really.cheap.
Shut up! I am buying everything.kitchensink as we speak! LOL!
That will leave the rest of us with everythingbutthe.kitchensink 😉
A massive majority of these names are completely unneeded, looks like a market attempt to get more domain sales. Wouldn’t surprise me if it eventually leads to stupidity or any domain name possible, perhaps DOTRedTintedCupWithBezel
It will likely be a bit of a mess. But where there is little to no technical reason preventing it, I think it was bound to happen at some point.