Dot-God vs DotGod?

j1mmy asks: "First of all, the .god registry went live recently, so everybody can now play with their new domains. I did just that, and a typo later, I was at a different .god registry. The dot-god.com is the one slashdot reported on way back when, which is the one I had registered with. As far as I can tell, these two registrars aren't related, and who sees what is merely a question of which dns servers one chooses. Is there an official .god registry? Is this the way the internet is heading as more public dns services and registries come online?" The issue here isn't necessarily that there are two registrars serving the .god TLD, just that the two are so close in name. Is the internet likely to experience more of this sort of confusion as new TLDs come online?

dotgod.com is down

[epsalon]

Returns 403 Forbidden via its Apache server.

Interesting...

[epsalon]

How much time till someone registers sex.god? Who will the luck celeb be?

Re:dotgod.com is down

[j1mmy]

i submitted this story in july. i'm not too surprised that one of them is down by now.

OpenNIC

[davidu]

I think the most popular alternative registry is the one run by OpenNIC. Chances are that if an alternative registry were ever to gain populace that would be it.

www.opennic.unrated.net [unrated.net]

Furthermore, dot-god.com works and dotgod.com doesn't. I think it's a message from God...whoever ( he | she ) is. ;-)

-dave

Startling news!

[Black Parrot]

$ whois one.true.god
No match for "ONE.TRUE.GOD".

Official God Registry?

[ajuda]

I thought the whole point of these alternative registrars were that they were alternative : that means they are not official by their very nature. If you want an address that will work by default on any computer, use a regular .com like everyone else.

Are these domains legitimate or not?

[bergeron76]

I just registered a few. If they are legit and will resolve in all browsers, I just did some fun stuff... otherwise, I just blew some serious cash. Can anyone comment on the integrity of these servers???

Did I waste my dinero?

Re:Are these domains legitimate or not?

[Russ Nelson]

Of course. They only work on machines where people have specifically enabled *just* those domains served by Pacific root. As far as I can tell, everyone running an alternate root is a lunatic, exceeded only in lunacy by NSI, of course.
-russ