Man Claims Rights to .NYC, .Movies, and More
Friday, May 8th, 2009
New Yorker says he already uses 118 top level domains.
I thought I had heard it all about new TLDs until I read this article in The Villager. Now that a new process for top level domain names is underway, Paul Garrin and his company Name.Space claims that it already “owns” many top level domain names including .nyc, .food, .sex, .movies, and .hotel.
Garrin and his company wanted to launch over nearly 500 top level domain names before ICANN even existed. He then tried to get 118 of them approved by ICANN in 2000, but couldn’t get ICANN to budge. Name.Space says it has an alternate root computer system where these top level domain names are used. (Practically speaking, it’s easy for anyone to set up an alternate root that supersedes existing top level domains on the network.)
Jobs, cash flow and tax revenues would all rise when — and if — these domain names are given the official O.K., he said; his company, NAME.SPACE would become a billion-dollar business pouring millions into New York’s economy.
Although it’s easy to laugh this off, I wonder if other alternate route and non-ICANN approved top level domain services, such as New.net, will challenge the issuance of new TLDs.
Further Reading:
- Olympics and Red Cross Push for Special Rights with New TLDs
- .XXX Registry to ICANN: “We Must Protect Our Rights”
Tags: new tlds
“New Yorker says he already uses 118 top level domains.”
Andrew,
Do you know if .CRAZY is among the 118?
Extra butter on my popcorn please
RT @dnnews: Man Claims Rights to .NYC, .Movies, and More – http://tinyurl.com/rbwmhj
I remember when Garrin was active..and he’s back http://bit.ly/124ahS
My root is better than your root.
There are also others who could mount similar complaints, e.g. the original applicant for .web.
I may be a litte surprised if other root dns start popping up and becoming popular, however I wouldn’t be shocked. There is defintely a fortune to be made on alternate dns path’s. Its a cool job to be the guy that controls root dns too, you essentially control the internet. I wanted to do this for a while and make a “family friendly” internet that would eliminate all DNS entries for domains used for viruses, adult sites, and so on based on a user’s preferences. Too bad a company called opendns.com figured it out before I could make it happen.
Oh wow!
Sounds like he’s positioned his company perfectly for…their very own…BBSs.
Can’t wait to sign up.
“Do you know if .CRAZY is among the 118?”
No, but .sucks is
His a peek at some history domain history : http://web.archive.org/web/20010710010253/http://www.new.net/
Remember new.net and their alternative root with domains like?
.shop
.family
.club
.inc
.kids
.xxx
EVEN .travel was on their list
At least they had a commercially released product with some ISPs like earthlink, juno etc supporting it.
These guys also had people involved that spun out in to another domain company . . .
Adam, you don’t have to go to Wayback for that. Have you seen New.net these days?
Operating an alternative root that is hooked into ISPs like Earthlink also gives you lots of interesting data about domains that are not registered (yet), but would get traffic if they were. Not entirely hypothetical
“Not entirely hypothetical”
Yeah, how many times have they been sued?
a billion dollar profit!!! wow !
“…his company, NAME.SPACE would become a billion-dollar business pouring millions into New York’s economy.”
Yeah, OK. And while he’s on a roll, can he give us the latest price to buy the Brooklyn Bridge?
anyone who is anyone knows I have the rights to .hotel
Andrew was just pointing out that they go “wayback” with their own little “project” of domains. Notice .travel and .kids are missing but .xxx is still there ? I believe there’s a tm on that extension too isn’t there ? memory might be mixing things up.
That’s crazy, I wonder how this whole thing would do. so much TLD’s are gonna be crazy
Exactly. When the right side of the dot is as common as the left side, ICANN will have officially nullified their “non-profit” status. And the rotation of the earth will reverse.
Thanks for your help, this is really informative stuff! Can’t wait to read some more.