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Home 22 Apr 2019 Dead TLD Update ICANN Last November I wrote a post observing that with .DOHA and .ZIPPO handing back the keys, the count of abandonded TLDs had reached 45, and I wondered how much other destroyed value was hiding in new TLDs. See more ... posted at: 18:36 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/dead47.html 21 Apr 2019 Domain Name Variants Still Won't Work ICANN ICANN has spent years trying to figure out what to do with domain name variants, strings that look different but mean the same thing, for some definition of "the same." They've been trying to deal with them in second level domains for a decade, and are now working on rules to allow variant top-level domains. Unfortunately, variants don't work. The problem isn't putting them in the DNS, it's that once they're in the DNS, they don't work anywhere else. See more ... posted at: 22:10 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/variantno.html

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