What are the odds of a dotgoogle next year?

[deepsand]

But G is in charge of those original links and can easily reroute requests. If it takes a couple of mainframes, what of it?

Google's in charge of the bookmarks on my machines? In charge of the links placed in posts here on this forum?

[weegillis]

Doesn't that simply result in an unnecessary Balkanization of the 'net?

Which was also a consideration when ICANN made it out of range of everything but large organizations and established registrars. The initial 'brands' that sign on are not going to have a problem with balkanization because they'll be in a position to clean up after themselves. Their data centers have enough spare clicks to set everything straight without skipping a beat.

[weegillis]

Google's in charge of the bookmarks on my machines? In charge of the links placed in posts here on this forum?

No. In charge of the way they're handled when they come a-knockin'!

[deepsand]

Which was also a consideration when ICANN made it out of range of everything but large organizations and established registrars.

I was speaking of your mention of the allowing of different language character sets in DNs.

[weegillis]

yeah. Well we all know what isolationism is, right?

[deepsand]

On yet another note, what to do with the traffic that's erroneously directed to .giigle, .goggle, .googel, .foofle, etal..

Each and every additional character in the TLD exponentially increased the probability of one or more transcriptions errors, potentially yielding a flood of 404s of epic proportion.

[weegillis]

That's going to be a pickle of a dilly for the DNS. 404's of epic proportion means millions more drop in hosting pages. Blecht!

[deepsand]

ISPs and DNS providers will have a field day using their "404 helpers" to push their causes de jour.

Remember when Network Solutions was taken to task for that? Back to the future.

[astro]

Would the likes of CocaCola, Google, BBC, etc. even bother with redirects anyway? Those are for the likes of us mere mortals. They are such omnipresent world wide organisations, everyone will know they have moved house as it were! The SE placement would soon re adjust to take this into account. Keep the page url's the same just changing the .cocacola or whatever

Anyway for a day or two it could give Ma Baker's prohibition nifty snifter cola based alcopop (or whatever) a crack at page one status for a change. Now wouldn't that return interesting results for a while

[deepsand]

Not only is it not the case that "everyone will know where they've moved to," but relying on users to manually change all of their bookmarks and on-page code would bring AdWords/AdSense to a screeching halt.

And, that is Google's bread-and-butter.