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This is Lauren Weinstein. ICANN's top-level domain expansion scheme
can be called a lot of things: expensive, deceptive, exploitive,
extortive, enraging, confusing, embarrassing, and more ... but when
you actually look at the massive, rather insane list of TLD
applications submitted so far, I'm forced to admit that ICANN's plan
can also be called ... entertaining. And so, with apologies to the
great Tom Lehrer and his "Elements" song, and of course to Gilbert and
Sullivan and their "Major-General's Song" from the "Pirates of Penzance,"
I offer ... "The TLD Song."
There's matrix, merck, memorial, guitars, guru, gap, guardian,
And theater and shangrila and mutualfunds and volkswagen,
And music, telefonica, kerryhotels, jpmorgan, And sex, adult, motorcycles, realtor, ram,
and ericsson.
Estate, events, equipment, enterprises, med, eurovision,
And network, neustar, netflix, netbank, nab, and new, mini and men,
And health and healthcare, helsinki, global, goodhands, and fujitsu,
And mba and mcdonalds, and maybelline and justforu.
There's free, frontier, frogans, flowers, firmdale, firestone, and financial,
And fishing, finish, fish, finance, final, forex, solar, social,
And infosys and insure and academy and transunion, And auction, menu, mlb, redstone, repair,
and liaison.
(OK spammers and other crooks, are you ready to start raking in that cash?)
There's jewelry and jlc and jll and hospital, And caravan and capital, capetown, quebec,
islam and shell, And prudential and progressive and qvc and
radio, And spreadbetting and ibm, icbc, and studio.
And stroke and sucks and storage, stream, hiphop, hermes, and hitachi,
Design, dentist, dental, clinique, movie, monster, love, seek, city,
And seven, sew, security, secure, webcam, college, coffee,
And commbank, cloud, clubmed, comcast, computer, chat, community.
There's zulu, zone, zara, zero, zuerich, tata, tax and tattoo,
Gay, grocery, gripe, gratis, graphics, gucci, paris, ***, payu,
And persiangulf, party, training, kosher, lawyer and ksb,
Carinsurance, bloomberg, blue, blog, book, trust, actor, and attorney.
These are but a small fraction of submissions far from frugal,
And most will be an utter waste 'cause everyone is using Google.