Here Is Some Food For Thought

[Aequitas]

What if the internet was more controlled in the aspect that each domain extension could only be used for a certain type of website.

Lets say that it was built into the backbone of the internet and there was nothing you could do to change it.

List of examples.

.tv only used for television type sites
.info only used for information type sites
.biz only used for business type sites
.edu only used for educational institutions (Oh Wait

What do you think the internet would have been like if this were the case with all domain extensions that come out?

 

[wickedDUDE]

it would be impossible for this to happen... who who monitor/control all of that

 

[Rage9]

What do you think the internet would have been like if this were the case with all domain extensions that come out?

One word: Relevant.

 

[barman]

.spam

 

[productionhead]

.cock for porn sitesz

 

[Aequitas]

it would be impossible for this to happen... who who monitor/control all of that

Fool read the post I said if you had no choice, as in another world, if it was like that.

Obviously this wouldn't happen, something like that would have had to start when the internet was born.

.spam

haha and also .spam2.0

 

[Red_Virus]

Life would be more frustrating and suck for webmasters. I am glad that it is not possible now. Good thought.

 

[_poto_]

.cock for porn sitesz

they tried to get .xxx passed several times... luckily it was shot down...

the fears within the adult industry were that if .xxx had passed there could have been a law made to force all adult sites into a .xxx ghetto... and it could have been easily blocked my ISPs or entire countries... leading to even more government regulation of the adult industry, etc...

oddly enough the conservative right-wing christians were very much opposed to .xxx too... they were afraid it would give more legitimacy to the adult industry...

 

[_poto_]

Obviously this wouldn't happen, something like that would have had to start when the internet was born.

something similar could still happen... all it would take would be a few laws changed/made and some arrests... a large FBI crack down and most people would fall in line...

the internet is still fairly young... most of us like to think of it as largely free and untouchable, but it's not completely immune regulation or censorship...

 

[MyOwnDemon]

I guess I would have to move all my sites to .own

 

[stack paper]

I Power
Buddy of mine preaches this shit all the time..
I call BS.. but he's been sayin' this shit for awhile now.. HM!

 

[Aequitas]

I Power
Buddy of mine preaches this shit all the time..
I call BS.. but he's been sayin' this shit for awhile now.. HM!

Yeah I hear a lot about netnutrality and how corporations want all the control over the data speeds, basically there argument used to be we need more speed because we have larger volumes of customers and the average user doesn't need what they get so fuck them and give us it all.

Fuck that shit, I'm not a corporation yet, when I do become a big corporation and yes it will happen then hell yes I vote for it but not until I'm on the better end of the stick.

I know thats only one example but still there are lots of things that will change the internet and its curious to see which directions it will shift in the next 10,20,30 years.

Fuck I'm only 24 (well 25 in a month) so I'll still hopefully be around in 30 years to see it happen.

 

[chatmasta]

It will never work, I don't know why people are so worried about it. They say it themselves in that video "if you are a small ISP, in 2012 people are going to want the treatment they had before." There will always be one ISP that realizes they'll make more money by NOT participating in this, and everyone will flock to them. And then the companies that did do it will lose customers and will have to revert back to normal.

Not to mention that many of the big sites in the second and third tier will be furious and push their weight around. eBay is already against this because they realize just how absurd it is.

Here's a good comment from a guy on digg:

I'm an IT guy, an ISP engineer for a large ISP, and this is complete FUD.

2012 is when IPv4 address space is slated to run out and we're supposed to have IPv6 ready by then. I don't think it's any co-incidence these conspiracy nut-jobs are using the same date as the date for the big internet steal.

IPv6 doesn't work in any largely different way to IPv4 works, except you'll see largely a removal of NAT from the ecosystem which will be good for consumers as things like VoIP will work without UPnP and NAT traversal hacks. Obviously there is a huge implementation overhead there, and most ISPs have large projects on the go to start working on shifting their infrastructure over by 2012. These projects are probably being misinterpreted by non-technical people within these companies and communicated as 'leaks' to these conspiracy fools.

Every now and then, Marketing people come down to us and ask "hey, so, can we sell a premium product that provides better service to all our ***** and our partner's ***** than the normal access product does?". The answer is always "No", for several reasons, mostly technical.

The few companies that are willing to degrade their customers access in hopes they can extort customers to upgrade to a 'higher quality' link will find that people will shift over to ISPs that don't do that, and the money they've spent in all those shaping boxes and for the changes in their AAA platforms will be wasted.

Back in the day, AOL, MSN, all these companies tried to 'own' the internet. But it has a way of squirming out of the reach of any single entity, even a consortium.