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[Dave Zan]

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/09/i....html?from=rss

A recent study showing millions hours of lost productivity, has prompted the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to ban the use of "www" in domain names.

But this last paragraph got me wide-eyed:

Web sites not following the rules will face fines of $10,000 or confiscation of their sites by ICANN.

Woooooooooooooo...

[KNL-BSW]

I'm just glad I know better than to believe everything i read on the web.

[silhouette]

Wow... this sounds serious to some people...

Maybe we should educate folks to use CTRL+ENTER for dot coms (and SHIFT+ENTER and CRTL+SHIFT+ENTER in FireFox)
that will save another 3 sec.

(but, are we serious here about the fine by ICANN???)

[Uhh-Yeah]

Wow... what a lame fine :\

[ub3r]

I think the fine will only apply in extreme circumstances.

Web sites not following the rules will face fines of $10,000 or confiscation of their sites by ICANN.

The user might just have their domain confiscated, minus the fine.

But what about domains like ultimeWWW.com ? I know that's a company. Are they only referring to domains like wwwyahoo.com ?


I didn't read the full article, by the way.

[Mini]

does this matter to Vhosts which are configured to accept BOTH with and without the "WWW" ?

Mini

[MatthewN]

From the post above it refers to the actual domain name as in domain.com. www is just an A record and I believe this wouldnt apply here as that is not the domain only domain.com is.

[cptcnj]

Originally posted by l.stevens
I'm just glad I know better than to believe everything i read on the web.

That's what I was thinking. I'd like to see this press release on icann.org. There's a big difference between them thinking about a policy change and actually implementing a fairly large fine.

[BrookeM]

First, try just scrolling down to the bottom of the page:

Copyright 1999-2005 by BBspot LLC
BBspot is a satirical news and comedy source and meant to be funny. If you are easily offended, gullible or don't have a sense of humor we suggest you go elsewhere.

I've been a fan of BBspot for years, and try to catch up there whenever I can. They had a story a couple of years back about Microsoft aquiring the Devil's shares of evil.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.html

[cptcnj]

Nice catch. I tried looking for something to tell me if the site was legit or not and totally missed the footer.

[benzden]

Sometimes, when I can't get a new link to work, I prefix the missing "www." to the domain name and, VOILA, it works. Does anyone know what percentage of domain names out there are hosted on name servers that require the leading and really unnecessary www.?

[Dave Zan]

Originally posted by BrookeM
First, try just scrolling down to the bottom of the page:

Copyright 1999-2005 by BBspot LLC
BBspot is a satirical news and comedy source and meant to be funny. If you are easily offended, gullible or don't have a sense of humor we suggest you go elsewhere.

I've been a fan of BBspot for years, and try to catch up there whenever I can. They had a story a couple of years back about Microsoft aquiring the Devil's shares of evil.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.html

He he he, good catch, BrookeM. You're the only one who caught
on what I was up to.

Just kidding, folks! Smile!

[KNL-BSW]

Dave,
I knew the moment I read it. I posted kind of obscure just because I really wanted to see the reactions (same as you). Been watching this thread with in hand and enjoying it immensely.

[Dan L]

I'm all in favor of the idea. Forcing www to be a reserved subdomain name is a terrible idea, especially when it's required.

[Dave Zan]

Originally posted by l.stevens
Dave,
I knew the moment I read it. I posted kind of obscure just because I really wanted to see the reactions (same as you). Been watching this thread with in hand and enjoying it immensely.

Whoops! Sorry, I forgot that you're actually the first to catch on.

Great read anyway, eh?