Are you .Gay?

[zoogo]

Yes you insinuated correctly. .GAY is here.

This site reports it:

Domain Names of the World: New .GAY tld

My question is: I like rainbows too, why do they get exclusive rights and affiliations with it

You'll also notice on the dotGAY homepage http://gaytld.com/ they have the "Flickr" option at the top highlighted by default, and it becomes brighter with highlight than any of the other social engines. Maybe this is a joke, and these guys have a sense of humour? "With a Flickr of the wrist"

 

[gazzip]

...What's next gay airlines?

Fly British airways, most of the male trolly dollies seem to be gay on British Airways, they have been for years...I'm beginning to think its a job requirement !







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[Domainate.com]

How is equality suppose to happen, when gay organizations and gay groups constantly try to separate themselves from the non-gay world. We have gay bars, gay clubs, gay communes, gay stores, a gay channel, San Francisco, gay schools for GLBT kids. What's next gay airlines? An all gay government? A gay world for only "gay" people?

Why do we constantly feel the need to separate ourselves from others based on our beliefs, sexual orientation, or the color of our skin? It's not just the gay community who does this, black people, white people, and religious affiliated people do the same thing too.

Equality doesn't happen by separating the apples from the oranges.
I feel this .gay tld does nothing but create more separation from the non-gay world.

.com at least is "neutral" and appeals to everyone, which is why it remains "king" of all domains.

What if the KKK wanted their own TLD .KKK?
What if the Black Panthers wanted their own TLD .BLACK?
What if the Pope wanted his own extension to .HELL?

How far will ICANN allow it to go?

I said this in fewer words earlier in thread...all these different groups of people doing stuff like this set back their own equality.

 

[jamesc25313]

And then someone is going to apply for .fag, representing the Film Actor's Guild :lol:

isnt that what they call cigs in the U.K?

 

[klrsmith]

LOL I can see a strike coming and the gay community with picket signs saying "LET .GAY LIVE WE DESERVE AN EXTENSION".

Actually they will be designated a repressed minority, and the Government will provide them with 3 billion dollars from some economic stimulus bill.

The registrar will also get priority to bid for hosting .gov websites, after the first Gay president is sworn in, and will be able to change Whitehouse.Gov to Whitehouse.Gay.

 

[Jaco]

This extension is a total ****ing nightmare and an absolute harbinger of things to come.
Brace yourself for unlimited gTLD's with very loose (if any) standards.

Just as securing domains was once relatively expensive and complex, we will eventually see the day when the costs and standards associated with securing an entire TLD drops dramatically. You will eventually see photos.bobsmith

Mark my words as I type them, here 3:16 Chicago time, 7/22 2009. This *will* happen.

 

[dotker]

this is not healthy for human race.. :P gayness is extremely contagious imho.

i was just arguing with someone a while ago that would you let your 3 yr old boy see a gay? they will be confused what the hell is that then it will just start an sexual identity problem=more gay... i know im off topic but gayness should not be tolerated god created a man and a woman.

 

[Cobretti]

I am new to domains and just confused with all these new ext

Will the gay's just use this for gay contact or something can't see a company us this ebay.gay?

 

[bmugford]

I am not going to respond to the comments, although I would like to.

I think that discussion is best left for another forum. I think comments here should be related to the domain extension itself.

Brad

this is not healthy for human race.. :P gayness is extremely contagious imho.

i was just arguing with someone a while ago that would you let your 3 yr old boy see a gay? they will be confused what the hell is that then it will just start an sexual identity problem=more gay... i know im off topic but gayness should not be tolerated god created a man and a woman.

 

[labrocca]

.black
.midgit
.straight
.married
.lesbian
.redneck
.sportsfan
.nerd

These special group extensions are going to be stupid, pointless, and from a domainers perspective overall worthless.

 

[dnb8]

I want .hetero

 

[eFingerz]

wow
I can't believe it happened
I have been saying they needed this for years
if any one heard me in chat here all of the times i have said this in that past
now we just need to get them to require all gay porn to be on .gay domains and/or maybe all porn to be on some other dot
then it will be good to go!
being most everything has a different meaning to a person that is gay
just look up the word gay
it has a bunch of definitions

i think it could work
im not gay / homosexual
but i could be some of the other definitions for gay easily and often (lively mood,bright & showy)

congrats to the gays that fought for this extension
but maybe we should just call em aliens
as some on else said i feel alot of the gays want to be apart from the human race
Gay is the new black

but as ernie doe said "if there is anything better than the opposite sex he must have kept it up above":D

 

[GreenGambler]

Why do we constantly feel the need to separate ourselves from others based on our beliefs, sexual orientation, or the color of our skin? It's not just the gay community who does this, black people, white people, and religious affiliated people do the same thing too.

Equality doesn't happen by separating the apples from the oranges.
I feel this .gay tld does nothing but create more separation from the non-gay world.

I don't care for this new extension and I'm sure it's more about profit and subdomain sales than trying to reach equality or helping people come together. Visions of profits and natural human greed is what made this, and all the others to come, happen. It's nothing new to the domain name world, we dream of great profits everyday by selling the names that we are holding "hostage", lol, some would say. But IMO, this is going too far and will hurt those profits that we on the reseller level are dreaming about.


daj, About the seperation of social structures based on who we are. IMO it is only natural. I think that humans have a natural instant to categorize and compartmentalize things. A need to identify and classify. We like to bring order to chaos when order is needed. Not only that, it gives us a way to be more descriptive, I am a white, gay, German/Scottish/Irish/American Indian hybrid, American, Missourian. How else could I say that? I am human

Grouping together with others who are like yourself in one way or another is not about seperation but about commonalities. IMO it is about meeting others who may share similar ideas and with whom you have common goals.


Just some thoughts I had to share,
GG
:hi:

 

[hrethel]

I can just see this turning into another .xxx debate. There's enough restrictive filtering going on in countries and in the public arena that the last thing we need is to create a TLD that's going to be banned on sight in way too many web filters. If this goes through, I guarantee some filtering software company will come along and take a cheap shot and "proudly" filter all .gay sites by default. Then, that'll just perpetuate the beliefs that some people have that gay == sex only. That's unfair to not only the gay community, but for those of us that believe in stopping online censorship.

 

[abdussamad]

I think this extension is a bad idea because in some parts of the world "gay" still means happy. I guess that meaning of the word is extinct in the west. Its wrong for them to hijack the word gay and make it appear exclusively homesexual.

I am only pointing this out because no one else noticed despite 3 pages of this thread. I seriously couldn't care less about this extension.