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This is very common with these new TLD's. At least they didn't give it to you for a year then jack up the price. I had jacki.party as a fun domain for my wife that she didn't end up using, but after a year the price went from like $29/yr to $2,495/yr. because they decided it was "premium." There was nothing my registrar could do because it was the domain registry who decided that, so I just let it lapse. Why is a ver…
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I have a .horse domain - I tried every permutation horse puns and in-jokes (my.lovely.horse, etc) but they were all taken by squatters or reserved for stupid prices. Eventually I settled for sheep.horse, which is easy to remember but not much else.
I'm glad that someone snagged hoarse.horse and is doing more with it than I would have. not.horse is available, too, if someone wants to tell that joke via a TLD. And of course, bad.horse is exactly what you expect it to be.
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I have a .horse domain - I tried every permutation horse puns and in-jokes (my.lovely.horse, etc) but they were all taken by squatters or reserved for stupid prices. Eventually I settled for sheep.horse, which is easy to remember but not much else.
When I was first building m.reddit.com, I put it under `reddit.horse`, mostly because I found it hilarious that `.horse` existed.
In my case, my surname TLD exists like XXX.{surname}. So I bought it w/ my first name ==> firstname.surname . It's cool and I will keep it as long as I can. I agree with the OP. They seems to gather the popularity info by accepting pre-register requests. Is there any policy to ban this behavior? Shouldn't the TLD be publicly opened?
nothing is stopping you from reselling *.whatever.com and so forth.
i wish i had my whole name as a domain, thats pretty awesome for you!
I've never understood why some random company is allowed to arbitrate the domain registration and make $$$ out of it. Feels like it's kinda not in the spirit of the internet.
Because running a global TLD is a non-trivial and costly public service to provide, so the TLD sponsor is allowed to monetize it.
There certainly is the issue that most of these TLDs aren't very interesting to most people, though. With low demand, I certainly understand why they want to be able to milk the few names that people find attractive.
I fail to understand the purpose of these non-standard TLDs. Nobody is going to remember or type in such a domain, so you stuff is only going to be found by a web search - where a standard domain would be better. So why not just register a .com - which are also cheaper?
> So why not just register a .com Because the name you wish to register is not available as .com domain. > Nobody is going to remember or type in such a domain I don't think this is true, I live in Europe and we have tons of country tlds, people use and remember them. Also is chris.blog really so much longer to type then chris.com or a lot harder to remember? I don't agree. At first it might feel strange to type some…
I've long felt the only sane approach is to define country-level TLDs (via the UN or something) transition everything under them, and then let each legal jurisdiction handle (or mishandle) their own shit. While it's far less-convenient for global companies and "ignoring borders", it decentralizes the system. Compartmentalizing failure and allowing some kinds of competition.
I've never understood why some random company is allowed to arbitrate the domain registration and make $$$ out of it. Feels like it's kinda not in the spirit of the internet.
DNS is a rotten system. From censorship, to ddos attacks, to squatting, to privacy issues with whois, to messed up financial incentives. It's a shame that DNS is a critical part of the internet infrastructure. We should work on getting rid of it.
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I have a last name that's extremely uncommon. MyLastName.com was available for many, many years. I thought about buying it a few times in the last 20 or so years but I don't have any use for it so I didn't. Two years ago it was bought by a domain squatter who was probably iterating through the white pages. Now that I can't have it I want it (I guess human nature) but they are asking like $2k for it. It seems somehow…
Start a business with your name, trademark it in a certain domain, file a claim with ICANN. Long process, but might be cheaper. :)
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I have a .horse domain - I tried every permutation horse puns and in-jokes (my.lovely.horse, etc) but they were all taken by squatters or reserved for stupid prices. Eventually I settled for sheep.horse, which is easy to remember but not much else.
I'm glad that someone snagged hoarse.horse and is doing more with it than I would have. not.horse is available, too, if someone wants to tell that joke via a TLD. And of course, bad.horse is exactly what you expect it to be.