ICANN’s new TLD application snafu: best stories and tweets from around the web
Monday, April 16th, 2012
What the web is saying about the ICANN TAS applicant security problem.
ICANN has spent quite a bit on PR to get the word out about new top level domains. So it also got quite a bit of attention when it admitted last week that there was a serious security problem with its online application system.
Here’s what the web was saying about the misstep:
Best headline:
“.Oops”: Glitch forces extension for new suffixes (Associated Press)
Best tweets:
Courtesy of @BerryhillJ.
Best opportunistic agenda pushing:
Is the New Top-Level Domains “Technical Issue” a Harbinger of Future gTLD Issues?
Courtesy of Mark Monitor.
Best one word parenthetical jab:
“The organization has also confirmed that it is still targeting April 30 for the Big Reveal day, when it publishes (deliberately) the gTLDs being applied for and the names of the applicants.”
Bada bing! Kevin Murphy will be here all week, folks. Remember to tip your waiters.
Were users able to see what strings were applied for by other users?
@ Samit – some users will able to see the file names submitted by others. Sometimes these file names include strings.
…and there is no certainty that any user actually saw a file name containing a TLD string in the first place.
@ John Berryhill – I’m going based on the anonymous applicant quoted on DI.