One senator is on a mission to make sure you never see “YourName.sucks” in your browser.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) wrote a letter Wednesday calling on the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which regulates top-level domains (gTLDs) like “.com” and “.net,” to deny an application for a “.sucks” domain. That body is working toward expanding possible domain names beyond traditional suffixes to things like “.sexy” and “.vacations.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=217713