www.craft.bukkit ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13835997

If the Bukkit team has a spare £114,000 lying around, you can apply for the .bukkit domain name suffix. That means you can have www.craft.bukkit , www.forums.bukkit etc.



Chris

114 thousand to apply how much for the real thing? if i get denied?

You can't apply for it as an individual - the company has to prove they have a need for it.

Chris

waste of money

Maybe Kain.zo

Wuuutz, I dont have that much money =D

I personally can see myself not liking this. In the next 5 years, the price will certainly be much cheaper and I would hate that because then everyone's websites would be "www.main/forum/rules/etc.minecraftservernamehere" instead of the normal "www.myminecraftservernamehere.com"

Sub-domains are enough. I prefer the original TLD's because you know what website you're going into. "co.uk" - European site. ".gov" - US Government site.. You don't need www.craft.bukkit. Just make craft.bukkit.com

EDIT: You can change the "www" to something for a sub-domain, and soon you will be able to change the "com/net/org/gov/co.uk/etc."? No thanks. I don't want to see adresses like: http://build860.craft.bukkit/

Yeah this whole thing is a huge scam, so ICANN can make a ton more money.

ad.fly<yoururl>

^Start your revenue!

That much just for a name on the internet? Hmmmmm.

Technically there was never a reason to restrict the names. Strings are strings. As long as it can be resolved, you could even have TLDs that actually point to a server.

http://minecraft/download.jsp.

What ugly URLs those would be.

id rather buy me a nice Ferrari with that money instead of a domain... This is outrageous xD

Too the poster above, it isn't a single domain registration. It's a actual suffix ending, meaning if you were a large domain seller like namecheap.com, you could make your own suffix for your company. Or be a country person and purchase your country their own suffix!

Could also have fun if you're a millionaire:

www.fbi.nk

nk = north korea lelelel

I think it's mostly designs for huge companies like Apple.

For example, www.iphone.apple
www.food.tesco
www.windows.microsoft
etc.

It only looks bad because we're used to the convential two/three letter long TLDs such as org, com etc.

Also, just to correct @ethood1999 , .co.uk is a UK-based company. Not European.

Chris

That is so cool. Tad expensive though

Just a tad.

soon it will be www.google XD or just .google lol

You wouldn't use the dot if there's no subdomain.

Ye but will just typing in google work? xD

To bad that most of the people on the internet are to stupid to understand such a thing ...
Most of them will type: www.craft.bukkit.com

@everyone
Hey, why don't we just make @ChrizC pay for it!

No, just typing in google will NOT work, or www.google because of the simple argument:
Can you type in just "com"? Or "www.com"? There's your answer.

@tips48 sure! domains are on me

@ChrizC whoop whoop! Mind as well buy something like iphone.apple or apple.iphone before they do!
@everyone hey guys, guess what, @ChrizC is probably buying drinks to!

Lol dude, i wasn't serious

Thought I'd make sure!

Yes, you can: http://www.com/
"www" is a completely valid domain to register under any TLD, so you may not be able to type just "com" you can type www.com

That is technically www.www.com >_>

why? www.something.com the www is just another subdomain isnt it, so why not www.bukkit? or www.com ?

WWW is just a common "web server" name. It is widely known and accepted but not required.

the www is just the subdomain, I have never seen an option saying server name: ""

It's more of a business thing. Like say I have multiple servers running under my domain. I'd have one whose hostname is www.rarobertson.net which would be the web server. Then another that is say, irc.rarobertson.net which is an IRC server. Even if the servers are physically one computer, the naming distinction helps see what's happening in log files and other places.