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The .blog Bait and Switch

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Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by guycook »

bradleyjg wrote: post #87
nommm-nommm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

mylastname.com was already gone in 1999, so I had to settle for mylastname.net. Too bad it didn't occur to me to secure it in 1996. If Tucows is willing to sell they certainly aren't publicizing it.

Spare a thought for us Cooks of the world. Four letters, a noun and a verb...

After the gTLD explosion I thought I could finally snare a decent one but they all went into the $1000+ category immediately, excepting niches like cook.republican, cook.accountant etc.

Luckily some did eventually come down, I managed to get cook.run for a more reasonable $50/year

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Post by KingSquidward »

echelon wrote: post #11

This seems to have become the de facto pattern with the new gTLD system. A company swoops in and buys a namespace for $200k (or more if there is a competitive bid), and they effectively turn into the cartel equivalent of the domain squatter. You can register your new gTLD for anywhere between $1 and $100, depending on what I suppose they expect their target demographic to be willing to pay. Dot horse is more expensiv…

My money on the first big causality of the new gTLD program is http://Rightside.co

Looking at ntldstats.com, it would appear that they can't manage to break +250 new registrations per day for about 40 domain extensions that they own and operate. Even worse, it looks like they have been going negative on new registrations now: https://ntldstats.com/registry/Rightside-Registry

The user interface has also gone to shit on their site Name.com. I'm a developer and can't for the life of me understand their backend anymore. Google Domains crushes them design-wise.

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by vool »

teh_klev wrote: post #119
parkersweb wrote: post #104

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Ah ... Father Ted! I was thinking the same :)

Tangentially related from an Irish perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8

haa, when this came out I reg'd horseoutsi.de and set it to play the video fullscreen/loop.

also this email address:

fuckyourhondacivicive@horseoutsi.de

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by seoseokho »

jklinger410 wrote: post #9
ensiferum wrote: post #2

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.

It is a complete state-sponsored racket. There's no way around it. You pay an upfront fee to ICANN and probably some kind of recurring tax and you get to create a TLD. You then sell this TLD for higher prices than ICANN and run a very simple service that processes the transactions. You then take anything lower than a 5 or 6 letter domain that is a word in the english language and define it as a "premium" domain and c…

There has got to be a hedge fund who buys up domains

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Post by Cpoll »

legohead wrote: post #19

I'll tell my TLD story. I was following .family for a long time, since my current "primary domain" is horrible and hard to say. .family sounded pretty awesome. There was that whole pre-registration BS but it is so convoluted and expensive I just waited till it went live. It did, and when I checked on my last name, it was set at $1200/year for a normally $30/year domain. This was when I was introduced to the idea of r…

> that this TLD in particular is a bit unfair, considering I don't control what name I'm born with

To be fair, it would also have been a bit unfair to the next guy with your last name if you had taken it.

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Post by otterley »

The Registrar's policy language makes so many exceptions for themselves that you'd have better odds playing roulette:

https://knockknockwhoisthere.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/dot...

"We are not bound to select a winner among RFP respondents and may hold the Domain Name for future allocation."

"We may activate and allocate to ourselves or third parties certain Domain Names (plus their IDN variants, where applicable) deemed necessary for the operation or the promotion of TLD."

"the Registry makes no guarantees or warranties as to whether any applicant will be successful in registering any Registry Domain Name."

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by __jal »

achr2 wrote: post #122
achr2 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A Blockchain.

I mean, I was being a bit facetious, but there are actual proposals for blockchain backed DNS. [1] https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain

Yes, this is an application where the blockchain wouldn't necessarily be stupid.

I don't see it as necessary, to be honest, and given the frequency with which people lose access to their wallets/have them stolen, I'm not entirely sure the bulk of domain owners would want bearer instruments to be the sole way to manage (or lose) their domain.

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by __jal »

bagosm wrote: post #116
hueving wrote: post #72

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The DNS resolver is configurable, not hard coded. Forcing a switch would require OS vendors to ignore the resolver issued via DHCP, which would not work on many corporate networks that block outbound DNS not via their resolver.

Maybe then just prefer if reachable? Soon enough it's the new standard.

Pick your favorite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root

There are others. But no, they don't become the new standard.

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