Ruh roh! Choice will be limited and scam sites will persist in new top level domains.
When I come home from work I like to kick my feet up, crack open a beer and watch a couple episodes of the new Scooby Doo*.
Last night while watching the gang solve another mystery, I saw the future of new top level domain names according to Scooby Doo. It wasn’t pretty.
Fred’s father bought an amusement park attraction on the site “Haunted Attractions For Sale dot Scare”, as he called it.
Later in the episode, you get to see the actual site:
That domain totally doesn’t pass the radio test. It’s actually HauntedAttractions4Sale.scare, not “for” sale.
Man, all the good .scare domains must have already been taken. I don’t know who applied for .scare (probably Donuts), but they must be selling a lot of registrations for Mayor Jones to stoop this low.
It gets worse. (Spoiler alert!) Velma discovers that the website is actually a fake! It turns out someone (I won’t give it all away) created the fake site to dupe Fred’s dad.
The Association of National Advertisers was right. New TLDs are a bad thing that will lead to more scams on the net. And those new TLD applicants would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for that meddling Dan Jaffe!
* OK, really it’s my daughter who likes to do this. Watching Scooby Doo, that is.
Jason says
This cant be an actuel episode of Scooby Do? Thats crazy if it! Thanks for sharing Andrew
Andrew Allemann says
Yes. It’s the “new” Scooby Doo. Not sure when it aired as it was on Netflix.
Monica Brown says
It was season 1 episode 21 of Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated.