similar to releaseing 1.0.0.0/8
Because 1.1.1.1 instantly became a muti-gigabyte sink.
Nearly 10 million locked-away domain names will be set free and go on sale over the next two months. But before you get excited, take a look at a list of them – beware, it's a huge CSV file. Among the very occasional gems like sex.bar, george.best or warcraft.cool, there are literally millions of utterly worthless domains …
this is going to sound very obvious, but we could all crowdsource our own name->IP mappings.
Not for everything of course.
But imagine the fun!! www.google.com could be www.darth.vader just for my household ;-)
Who's with me? I think the profanisaurus might be useful here...
P.
The gTLDs .corp and .home were "deferred indefinitely" due to the huge number and frequency of name collisions. They'll never be resolved by the public DNS system.
I endorse this move, and suggest ICANN extend it to around 100,000 more of the most common English words and abbreviations thereof.