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I use a .io domain and I get why .com isn't sufficient, but I really fail to see the value that this, along with most of the other cute new tld's, bring to the world. More than anything, I fear that it will teach my parents that domains can look like anything, so that link in the email is probably fine.
The funny part is ads having to add the "www." part, again, instead of just "word.[recognizableTLD]".
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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"?
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> 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…
You can type it on arbitrary people’s computers, not just your own. Same reason text-editor default shortcuts are important. Not sure about discoverability. Probably they’d just mention the shortcut on the canonical page.
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'.
The only super useful version of this idea is a privacy law that requires services that collect data to offer a “facebook.delete” link to temporarily and permanently remove personal data.
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What about "car.new", where you can buy cars? Would that be enough "action generation"?
tesla.new where you can order directly online, yeh probably. That's I reckon exactly the kind of distinction I think they're going for. ford.new would make me go to a dealer so I think they should be able to never get one.
Or what is when Ford will never get ford.new, is it free to register by anyone?
http://repo.new/ goes to github... sorry gitlab - you lose this round.
I typed word.new and I got a cert error. Use at your own risk.
Probably Microsoft didn't get around to re-issuing the cert yet...