Talk:Proposed top-level domain

Addition of .bank

Proposed by F-Secure (as slash-dotted) and further backed up (by F-Secure again). Could probably be added to this list as well as have its own article, as it smells like a reasonable idea, that might come to exist. --Morten Barklund ^{[ talk / contribs ]} 11:45, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

A wee bit premature, as this is nowhere near even the ICANN proposal stage. If someone applies for .bank, then it should be added with the other proposed top-level domains at that point. --66.102.80.212 (talk) 02:40, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Addition of .shop

Proposed by Commercial Connect for ecommerce. —Ost (talk • contribs) 03:46, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Merge .bzh, .cym, .gal and .sco

There are four articles about proposals for language and culture-based domains: .bzh, .cym, .gal and .sco. They all share the same characteristics:

• They are inspired by the success of .cat.
• The status of ICANN's treatment of the proposal is not so clear.
• The sources for them are quite the same: A website with a petition and possible an article on a local news website, and ICANN documents, which passingly mention the proposals with very little substantial data.
• The proposals' websites mostly carry petition-like information. .gal's website looks like the most substantial one, as it appears to be backed by Galician government and not a small group of people, like all the rest.
• Their status as described in their respective {{Infobox Top level domain}} infoboxes is almost identical.

Based on all the above, i propose to merge them all into this article or maybe a new article with a name such as Proposed top-level domains for languages and cultures.

The current article names can stay as redirects. If and when these domains actually become registered or the campaigns for them become more notable they should become full articles.

Please correct me if i am wrong in the presentation of the above facts.

I'd be glad to hear any other opinions. --Amir E. Aharoni 07:58, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

There's a certain possibility that the 30th International Public ICANN Meeting (L.A. 29 October - 2 November 2007) will shed some new light on these proposed domain, so i put the merge proposal on hold for a few days. --Amir E. Aharoni 18:13, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

There were no objections, so i performed the merge. --Amir E. Aharoni 18:46, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Merge .kid and .kids

.kid and .kids are two very short stubs about proposed domains. Their status and purpose is similar and common sense suggests that at most one of them will ever be registered.

So i propose to merge them both into this article. When it becomes registered or the proposal(s) become(s) notable, it can become a separate article. --Amir E. Aharoni 17:20, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

.ga.ie

The .ga.ie entry should be removed. This page is about "proposed top-level domain" - but .ga.ie might better be discribed as a "proposed second-level domain". Not at all the same thing. Djegan (talk) 15:10, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

.qc

Somebody wants to do more research on sovereigntists' proposed TLD .qc for Quebec, Canada? CBC News article is a good start. 24.81.130.107 (talk) 05:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks your adding it. 24.81.130.107 (talk) 15:09, 18 April 2008 (UTC)