The Worst Extension Of All Time Looks Like A Go: .Post

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According to a couple of press releases today,  it looks like ICANN is going to approve, what I consider the worst and most unnecessary gTLD of all time; .POST

The Universal Postal Union (UPU) is the sponsor of the .POST top-level domain.  The UPU, is responsible for setting the rules for the universal network of international postal mail exchanges.

The CEO of ICANN  Rod Beckstrom is quoted as saying:

“”This validates the ICANN model for fostering expansion of and innovation in the domain name space”

Really?

I think quite the opposite.

Not only does it creates another totally dead on arrival gTLD, but a very dangerous one, which will be used by phishing scams representing to be “official” notices from country postal offices around the world.

Final approval of the agreement is subject to ICANN’s public comment process (which will commence after ICANN concludes its meeting in Seoul on 30 October 2009), and consideration by the Board of Directors.

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  8. Pat says

    Here’s a thought. How about a “.ICANN” gTLD? It could be reserved for exclusively for inept frauds?

    Hey ICANN, how about cleaning up the registrars before proposing any additional hare-brained money-grubbing schemes?

    Tucows and other registrars are basically stealing domain names every day that they should be returning to the available pool, while ICANN turns a blind eye to this theft.

    Beckstrom is a clown and a joke. FAIL.

  9. Mike says

    ICANN’S slogan should read:

    “ICANN…YOUCANN….WECANN make .COM’S stronger by releasing one useless new extension after another! Won’t you join us in defiling the namespace ?”

    It looks like Rod decided the status quo was the right path.

  10. BullS says

    I love all the extensions that most of you buy..net,info,org, asia,me etc etc…

    Obama loves you all for spending money and spur the economy

    Go go spend your money.

    We all here should be encouraging others to buy buy buy all the extensions except dot com.

  11. Cartoonz says

    wtf do they plan on doing with this extension anyway it the question that has always come to mind for me since they first asked for it.

    Think about it… here we have an international organization that works with real, tangible packages, letters, and parcels all over the globe. They make sure if you mail something from your post office in Oklahoma, it will get to cousin Ubu in Kenya…

    How, exactly, is a TLD going to help with that? Doht! I cannot.

    So what is the purpose? Perhaps to make a new email protocol that they control? maybe in 2015 you can take your package to the post office, they put it into a machine and it instantly does a Houdini and appears at the recipient’s doorstep… (ok, I’d sign up for that one).