ICANN to Ban Use of "WWW"

[Dave_Z]

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/09/icann_ban_www.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...

 

[slantednet]

WWWhat the **** ever... I'll believe that one wwwhen I see it...

 

[Sam]

Not everyone was pleased with the move. Webmaster Jens Mulling of Star Wars fan site, www.ookie.es, condemned the move saying that the www was an integral part of their site identity. "Who's going to go to ookie.es?"

HAHAHA! Oh my. Ingenoius use of the www there... never thought of that

 

[martialtiger]

this is fake, right? I don't see how it would make any sense to do that or why it even matters. But it's late and I'm gullible so, someone please shed some light on this rumor.

 

[Redleg]

:lol: great one

(but it probably fits better in the Break Room?? )

 

[faisj]

this is a joke! (right... ?)

 

[barefoottech]

ABSOLUTE and utter proof nobody reads anything in total
did any of you bother to read this at the bottom of that webpage

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[faisj]

ABSOLUTE and utter proof nobody reads anything in total
did any of you bother to read this at the bottom of that webpage

lol

 

[Dave_Z]

ABSOLUTE and utter proof nobody reads anything in total
did any of you bother to read this at the bottom of that webpage

He he he, about time someone pointed that out.

I posted this because there's a "serious discussion" about it in another forum.
But nobody seemed to notice that tidbit at the bottom until I pointed it out to
them.

Don't get worked up, folks! But sorry to those who did anyway.

 

[Ringr]

So...

Say you own:

wwwyahoo.com
wwwgoogle.com
wwwforums.com
etc., etc.

You're going to be fined $10k a pop?

Nevermind - just noticed Barefoottech's findings.
Thank God.

 

[RegFee]

So...

Say you own:

wwwyahoo.com
wwwgoogle.com
wwwforums.com
etc., etc.

You're going to be fined $10k a pop?

Nevermind - just noticed Barefoottech's findings.
Thank God.

lol...I wonder how long this thread will get replies

 

[stscac]

I completely fell for it.



Because ICANN WOULD do that...

-Steve

 

[slantednet]

lol...I wonder how long this thread will get replies

Apparently we don't read replies before posting on teh articles that we didn't read.

lol

 

[znender]

lo, this is a very funny joke.
if it was true, we would all be $crewed.

 

[The Prodigy]

ICANN would do that.. They're pretty much crazy ya'kno.

 

[Leyen]

lmao... that was a great joke... fooled a huge number of us :p

 

[Masahiro]

Haha, should've known it was from those crazy Belgians...

It's a great country though... especially as they pumped in 3 of of the 4 main British channels to our hotel room!!

 

[MadAboutDomains]

$10,000 for www. HAHA!! as if

 

[Shorty]

I wouldn't be surprised if they did this for real in the future though. My mate nearly got scammed because of a wwwbigname.com site misleading him.

 

[Grrilla]

I almost got faked out the other day when I forgot to include the dot in a subdomain address and landed on a similar site. <-tricky, tricky. I caught it immediately, but because the subdomain that I was looking for was dealing w/ financial info, it made me check twice when I did land at the right site, because the company also had the 3rd level term as a 2nd level domain and redirected to it.
(ie 3rd.[example].com -> 3rd.com). Helps one to remember to cross the t's and dot the dots and to stay clear of sensitive info while inebriated.