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[bizarrojack]

I saw this video while reading discussions about ICANN's change to the domain name system:



And here's the most amusing thing I've seen at work, recently:

From: HR person
To: Intranet website administrators
Subject: FW: RQ 11112/Employees:Do not allow employees to change their name in Intranet System:Update

Comments

[pseudotheist]

Oh? What's the change?

[bizarrojack]

I haven't seen the implementation details yet, but they're totally opening up the TLD's, after some sort of review process, to any sort of name.

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-26jun08-en.htm

It's huge!
I am still wondering things like whether they'll let people have single name A records, e.g. Could http://microsoft/ be a valid URL one day? I'll miss seeing dots.
I hope they don't forget to reserve "localhost."

[bizarrojack]

I forgot that was going to become a broken link. I clicked it to see what would happen, and it goes to google, and then redirects to www.microsoft.com anyway. I wonder if it bothered doing a DNS lookup before taking it as a failure.

[pseudotheist]

Neat!

[bhoneydew]

I'm amazed it took them this long. Particularly with Xen around.

I so miss those problems...