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22 Apr 2019
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.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/dead47.html
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.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/variantno.html
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