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Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

tpmx wrote: post #34
fragmede wrote: post #12

As mentioned on the linked page, http://docs.new , http://sheets.new , and http://slides.new exist as shortcuts to get to a new google doc, but it doesn't play well with Chrome's address bar - using them makes getting to existing docs and sheets take an extra step. Not the worst, but still, kind of annoying.

If you have a both a personal gmail account and a for-work "google for business" account - the shortcut will take you to whatever account you signed into first . If you attempt to switch to a different account after accessing https://docs.new/ , that will trigger an "ask for permission to access document" dialog. Not awesome. (AFAIK, the only way to fix this is to sign out and then log back in, in the "correct" order…

Works great with container tabs in Firefox.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by csunbird »

EGreg wrote: post #67

Wouldn’t it be so much better if domains were specified the other way? new.github.repo It makes more sense and sounds better in most languages too Although from the point of view of HTTP we already have verbs for that. It should really be POST github/repo Or maybe in user friendly display: new github/repo I guess maybe usa.github and in.github can be different domains because different organizations may have same nam…

Actually, I feel like `new` can be a really good command line tool. Think about it:

- new `github/repo` will open a browser tab for new github repo

- new `text` will create a new txt document

can be extended by adding more definitions

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by bufferoverflow »

profmonocle wrote: post #64
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."

Amusingly, they list these requirements on "whats.net" - a site which clearly violates these rules.

whats.new, not whats.net

And yes, you're right.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by shpx »

twodave wrote: post #7

It's like they're trying to turn the address bar into a terminal. I really don't get it.

The address bar is a thousand times cooler than my terminal because it understands English and does package management automatically, often in under a second.

I just wish it could convert files.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by Already__Taken »

laurent123456 wrote: post #79

> That means that all .new domains registrations must: ... I don't get why anyone would want this over a regular domain with which they can do whatever they want with no restrictions. It's just another way for Google to control and have a say over other people's businesses. For sure we'll see again posts about people having had their product destroyed because Google cut them off with no way to appeal.

This is pretty normal, all registras have usage restrictions. Most are poorly enforced but googles reqs seem pretty reasonable, The problem with all registers is you have very little recourse.

I quite like gsuite but if your only domain is bought as a google TLD on google domains with your gsuite account via google pay with google voice contact details and gmail contacts. God help you.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by Already__Taken »

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…

docs.new is pretty convenient

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by tristanperry »

zekrioca wrote: post #82

How can they own and control the registration and dictate its policy for this new domain (pun somehow intended)? Will it ever be available to other providers to sell this domain with perhaps different rules?

Google bid for the gTLD (https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/) and won it (https://icannwiki.org/.new), so they have full control over it.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by tristanperry »

So Google are doing their best to 'kill off' URLs in Chrome and Search, but are simultaneously launching a new gTLD with rules that dictate exactly what URLs under .new should use?

This seems like a case of 'the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing'.

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