I'm curious why some of those rows are colored blue (IDN, KIDS, UMMAH). I also wonder what effect this will have on domain squatting (probably very little, all told).
Anyone have any favorites? I see .DOT (dot.dot, anyone?), .WINNERS, .SUCKS (more desirable than .SEX), .NINJA, .MATRIX (registered by L'Oreal rather than HP, sadly), .IRA (financial planning and domestic terrorism in one convenient location), and absolutely no sign of .CAT (what do you think the internet is for, anyway? (No, wait, .PORN is right there.)).
.cat is registered by Catalan organisation puntCAT. According to Wikipedia, its intended use is to promote the Catalan language and culture, these pages notwithstanding:
There's already a ton of [big company]sucks.com domains out there. Once you reach a certain size you need to go register those domains as a defensive measure.
The .sucks people will make a crazy amount of money in registration fees for domains that will never ever be used.
It would be fitting, considering slashdot was named such as a pun from the days when you needed to type http://slashdot.com. When you told someone out loud how to get to the site, it came across as http colon slash slash slash dot dot com. They could renew the joke with http colon slash slash slash dot dot dot.
Anyone have any favorites? I see .DOT (dot.dot, anyone?), .WINNERS, .SUCKS (more desirable than .SEX), .NINJA, .MATRIX (registered by L'Oreal rather than HP, sadly), .IRA (financial planning and domestic terrorism in one convenient location), and absolutely no sign of .CAT (what do you think the internet is for, anyway? (No, wait, .PORN is right there.)).