New TLDs and spam

[Boac]

According to No 1 son there are around 300 new authorised TLDs, including 'club', 'page' and - yes, 'porn', and spammers are latching onto them in their droves. We have adopted the blanket barring of each as they surface, which is bad news for any of the clients who actually WANT a genuine email from them, but saves a lot of pain and works on the principle that if someone really wants to contact Mr Smiff they will find another way if the first one does not work..

Here is the full list if you are an inmsoniac.

.adult .africa .agency .airforce
.alsace .apartments .app .archi
.army .art .associates .attorney
.auction .audio .auto .baby
.band .bar .bargains .bayern
.beer .berlin .best .bet
.bid .bike .bingo .bio
.black .blackfriday .blog .blue
.boutique .brussels .build .builders
.business .buzz .bzh .cab
.cafe .cam .camera .camp
.capetown .capital .car .cards
.care .career .careers .cars
.casa .cash .casino .catering
.center .ceo .charity .chat
.cheap .christmas .church .city
.claims .cleaning .click .clinic
.clothing .cloud .club .coach
.codes .coffee .college .cologne
.community .company .computer .condos
.construction .consulting .contractors .cooking
.cool .country .coupons .courses
.credit .cricket .cruises .cymru
.dance .date .dating .deals
.degree .delivery .democrat .dental
.dentist .desi .design .diamonds
.diet .digital .direct .directory
.discount .doctor .dog .domains
.download .durban .earth .eco
.education .email .energy .engineer
.engineering .enterprises .equipment .estate
.eus .events .exchange .expert
.exposed .express .fail .faith
.family .fans .farm .fashion
.film .finance .financial .fish
.fishing .fit .fitness .flights
.florist .flowers .football .forsale
.foundation .frl .fun .fund
.furniture .futbol .fyi .gal
.gallery .games .garden .gent
.gift .gifts .gives .glass
.global .gold .golf .graphics
.gratis .green .gripe .group
.guide .guitars .guru .hamburg
.haus .health .healthcare .help
.hiphop .hiv .hockey .holdings
.holiday .horse .hospital .host
.hosting .house .how .immo
.immobilien .industries .ink .institute
.insure .international .investments .jetzt
.jewelry .joburg .juegos .kaufen
.kim .kitchen .kiwi .koeln
.kyoto .land .lat .law
.lawyer .lease .legal .lgbt
.life .lighting .limited .limo
.link .live .loan .loans
.lol .london .love .ltd
.ltda .maison .management .market
.marketing .mba .media .melbourne
.memorial .men .menu .miami
.moda .moe .mom .money
.mortgage .moscow .nagoya .navy
.network .news .ngo .ninja
.nrw .nyc .okinawa .one
.onl .online .organic .osaka
.page .paris .partners .parts
.party .pet .photo .photography
.photos .physio .pics .pictures
.pink .pizza .place .plumbing
.plus .poker .porn .press
.productions .promo .properties .property
.pub .qpon .quebec .racing
.radio .recipes .red .rehab
.reise .reisen .rent .rentals
.repair .report .republican .rest
.restaurant .review .reviews .rich
.rip .rocks .rodeo .ruhr
.run .ryukyu .saarland .sale
.salon .sarl .school .schule
.science .scot .security .services
.sexy .shiksha .shoes .shop
.shopping .show .singles .site
.ski .soccer .social .software
.solar .solutions .soy .space
.store .stream .studio .study
.style .supplies .supply .support
.surf .surgery .sydney .systems
.taipei .tattoo .tax .taxi
.team .tech .technology .tennis
.theater .theatre .tienda .tips
.tires .tirol .today .tokyo
.tools .top .tours .town
.toys .trade .trading .training
.tube .university .uno .vacations
.vegas .ventures .versicherung .vet
.viajes .video .villas .vin
.vip .vision .vlaanderen .vodka
.vote .voting .voto .voyage
.wales .wang .watch .webcam
.website .wed .wedding .whoswho
.wien .wiki .win .wine
.work .works .world .wtf
.在线 .移动 .онлайн .сайт
.орг .中文网 .संगठन .机构
.みんな .游戏 .企业 .xyz
.yoga .yokohama .zone

[G-CPTN]

Can you 'search' a domain by preceeding it with an asterisk?

[Slasher]

.adult .sexy .porn

Are all those somehow going to collectively make life easier for us dirty old buggers connoisseurs of exquisite erotica?

[Boac]

Can you 'search' a domain by preceeding it with an asterisk?

What in particular are you searching for?

[G-CPTN]

Can you 'search' a domain by preceeding it with an asterisk?

What in particular are you searching for?

Nothing specific. From memory, I could do a search on my computer using an asterisk as a wild card, so I just wondered if I could list all the addresses from a specific domain.

[Boac]

I have not found any way to search any TLDs or individual domains for 'residents' - it would be very useful.

[G-CPTN]

By 'addresses' I was referring to URLs rather than domestic residences.
I thought it might be possible to browse through the content of a particular domain to see what was on offer.

[Boac]

Alison may know if there are central databases of registrants with the registrars, but I don't.

[OFSO]

Never search with Google. Use Start Page.

[boing]

Seems a bit excessive. On the other hand any intelligible domain name under .com or .org seems to have been grabbed by speculators who will then allow you to buy it from them at considerable profit. Perhaps the expansion will put a crimp in this practice.

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