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Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by JMTQp8lwXL »

Cogito wrote: post #10

So the stated use case is for 'performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it.' So it's expecting users to go to a different website to perform one specific action, and then return to the original website? If I'm on github.com, click the new repo button, and get redirected to 'repo.new' I'm assuming the website has been hacked. If I want t…

I wonder if CLI commands is a valid use case, e.g:

curl -L https://myapp.new | bash

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by Cogito »

derefr wrote: post #17
Cogito wrote: post #10

So the stated use case is for 'performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it.' So it's expecting users to go to a different website to perform one specific action, and then return to the original website? If I'm on github.com, click the new repo button, and get redirected to 'repo.new' I'm assuming the website has been hacked. If I want t…

Other way around: repo.new would redirect to github.com/repositories/new. Imagine a webapp whose landing view page is very heavy-to-load because it’s a view of your library of documents. Like, say, Google Docs. Now imagine there’s a thing you can type instead of docs.google.com (i.e. https://docs.new ) that’ll let you skip past that library view, straight to a blank new document view, so you can immediately start typ…

> Other way around: repo.new would redirect to github.com/repositories/new.

Look at that!, it does redirect to github.com/new/

I guess that will be useful for some people? It feels a little bit like mystery meat though; how do I discover these super useful shortcuts?

If I am someone who would benefit from learning a quick-to-type shortcut for performing an action, say because I create these things all the time, what does this offer over a bookmark or autocomplete in the address bar?

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by 65934 »

grenoire wrote: post #13

There's a requirements list, by the way: "That means that all .new domains registrations must: - Be used for action generation or online content creation; - Take the user directly into the action generation or content creation flow; - Resolve to the action within 100 days of registration;* and - Allow Google Registry to verify compliance at no cost."

checked link.new which is owned by bitly, it goes to bitly sign up page instead of link shortener. This is bad
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