Frostbite Falls, Minn. (ZAP) -- The Minnesota-based Society for Leveraged Internet Mercenary Exploitation Domains (SLIMED) expressed enthusiastic satisfaction with leading domain registrar Go Daddy's decision to feature the new ".co" [sic] Top-Level Domain (TLD) as the default on its home page today, reducing to "trash" status the old, obsolete, useless, silly, obscene, disgraceful, painful, purulent, and less expensive ".com" TLD that all consumers already understand.

"This decision by Go Daddy to emphasize .co [sic] signals the real beginning of the TLD gold rush -- with literally thousands of new TLDs promised over the next few years by Internet Control Authorities," said Boris Puteo, SLIMED media affairs and financial director, at an interview today during a celebratory gala at the ultra-exclusive "Masa" restaurant in New York City.

"TLDs are like gold," said Puteo, "even better than gold in fact, since you can't force people to buy bullion, but you've got everyone over a barrel when it comes to protective domain registrations!"

Puteo refuted claims that the coming deluge of new TLDs will carry enormous costs and confuse consumers, while opening avenues for vast numbers of new phishing scams and spam attacks, without bringing any real positive value to ordinary Internet users.

"If people can't figure out the difference between .co [sic] and .com, they're just, well, sic [sic!] in the head. Why can't these bleeding heart, pencil-necked geeks stop rocking the boat, and just get back into their cubicles and their damned programming -- oh excuuuse me, I mean softwaaare engineeeering!" said Mr. Puteo, "Just leave the moola magic to us!"

SLIMED's Puteo also noted that an illuminating and very short new YouTube video was now available for viewing -- showing the Top-Level Domain consideration procedure in action, and incontrovertibly demonstrating the complex, serious, lucid, and deliberative process involved in TLD approvals.

"Top-Level Domains really swing! And while I probably shouldn't be telling you this yet, SLIMED is hoping to make a deal with Burundi so that we can sell ".bi" TLD domains to everyone who swings both ways! God, I love the Internet!" Puteo added.

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--Lauren--