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Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

#91
post #5

I'm looking forward to .old

I'm really sad that registering clin.sucks would cost me $250USD or whatever. The intent of the TLD seller is to hold companies to ransom (buy yourcompany.sucks, or someone that hates you will). I'd kill clin.sucks as a mail domain.

What's clin?

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

#92

> 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.

> all registras have usage restrictions.

Sure, but I never saw anything as ambiguous as:

* Be used for action generation or online content creation;

* Take the user directly into the action generation or content creation flow;

* Allow Google Registry to verify compliance at no cost.

That some AI script with a failure quote of ~2% will verify your compliance wont help also.

And the only way to get some human support in those cases is when you manage to get on page 1 of HN with your "crying for help" tweet.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

#93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> all registras have usage restrictions. Sure, but I never saw anything as ambiguous as: * Be used for action generation or online content creation; * Take the user directly into the action generation or content creation flow; * Allow Google Registry to verify compliance at no cost. That some AI script with a failure quote of ~2% will verify your compliance wont help also. And the only way to get some human support i…

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Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

#94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> all registras have usage restrictions. Sure, but I never saw anything as ambiguous as: * Be used for action generation or online content creation; * Take the user directly into the action generation or content creation flow; * Allow Google Registry to verify compliance at no cost. That some AI script with a failure quote of ~2% will verify your compliance wont help also. And the only way to get some human support i…

That still seems pretty reasonable. They want ".new" to be seen and used as an interaction element, not as a random TLD. E.g. if twitter would get one, twitter.new would bring you somewhere where you could directly start typing a new tweet.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

#95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> all registras have usage restrictions. Sure, but I never saw anything as ambiguous as: * Be used for action generation or online content creation; * Take the user directly into the action generation or content creation flow; * Allow Google Registry to verify compliance at no cost. That some AI script with a failure quote of ~2% will verify your compliance wont help also. And the only way to get some human support i…

That still seems pretty reasonable. They want ".new" to be seen and used as an interaction element, not as a random TLD. E.g. if twitter would get one, twitter.new would bring you somewhere where you could directly start typing a new tweet.

What about "car.new", where you can buy cars? Would that be enough "action generation"?

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

#96

> 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.

They seem quite different, restrictive, and onerous to me. In particular "registrations must have websites that are both live and compliant within 100 days of registration". You can't register a domain to use later, you have to get something up quickly, something that satisfies Google's vague "action" requirements.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

#97
This is awful. Google Docs is a place where you can create a new document, not the place. Same for Spotify etc.

Giving the .new domain to the dominant company just makes it harder for everyone else to compete with them. Which is probably the point.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

#98
post #19
post #2

Why do we need this?

Why would TLDs need to be created based on need? What’s wrong with a company making a TLD as a whimsical cute idea (and still expecting to be profitable doing so, because whimsical people will go along with it)?

Using .new for something "cute" means it can't be used for something useful anymore.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

#99
post #31

Been using https://docs.new for the past 2-3 months. It's absolutely game-changing as I'm writing a bunch of stories and need to iterate fast and recompile my thoughts just by typing in 8 characters.

If it's something I do frequently, my browser autocompletes an ordinary long URL after 1-2 characters. It doesn't seem very game-changing to have to type in a whole short URL instead. What am I missing?

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

#100
post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm really sad that registering clin.sucks would cost me $250USD or whatever. The intent of the TLD seller is to hold companies to ransom (buy yourcompany.sucks, or someone that hates you will). I'd kill clin.sucks as a mail domain.

What's clin?

Presumably yoloClin's name.
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