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Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by edoceo »

DJHenk wrote: post #111
sdan wrote: 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.

> 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. Is it? Or are you being sarcastic? Every word processor/text editor that has ever existed on this planet has a shortcut for that. Every phone that is internet connected has a notes app only one click away and the option to 'share' whatever you wrote. These cloud tools ha…

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Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by edoceo »

philsnow wrote: post #114
nullify88 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Due to HSTS (It maybe preloaded in your browser), the browser internally redirects http://gist.new to https://gist.new . And then receives a 301 from the web server (which is cacheable) to redirect you to your final destination. Edit: It is ( https://hstspreload.org/?domain=gist.new )

AFAIK google is doing this (HSTS preloading the entire gTLD) for many gTLDs they own, including .app

And .dev

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by joshstrange »

This seems rather... useless. I've bought a few tld's mainly in just a land-grab/cover-my-bases fashion but by and large they are all useless. Every bit of traffic is coming from HN/Twitter/FB/Google. The direct traffic is low enough that it's probably coming from either me. It doesn't matter if I have an .co/.io/.com/.dev they are all the same at the end of the day.

These new TLD's strike me as just a money grab before some people realize a domain name matters FAR less than most people thing.

Maybe I'm just not the target audience but I don't ever see myself typing "gist.new" into my address bar. Anyone who knows what a gist is is going to go to github and if you don't know what a gist is then you aren't going to know to type "gist.new" into the address bar.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by CydeWeys »

scrollaway wrote: post #72
profmonocle wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

bit.ly does not require you to be logged in to create a new short link, so they don't seem to be in compliance.

mail.new seems broken as well, it hard-requires an @google.com login.

It's not launched yet.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by CydeWeys »

mkl wrote: post #99
sdan wrote: 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?

My browser is not reliably auto-completing URLs to specifically post a new tweet, or create a new calendar entry, or write a new email, etc. Those URLs are often long and bulky.

The intent of .new is when you know you want to perform a specific action (like write a new doc), you type in the first few characters of the related .new domain name, let the browser autocomplete do the rest, and now you've already got the new thing and are working on it instead of having been deposited at the home page of the site in the question and then have to navigate through the UI to make the new thing yourself.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by CydeWeys »

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…

"Treating a TLD as a verb is just silly. It comes at the end of the sentence..."

Yes, ending a sentence in English with a verb is definitely something that you never do. Can you imagine how ridiculous that'd be?!

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by techslave »

Cogito wrote: post #26
derefr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> what does this offer over a bookmark or autocomplete in the address bar?

google keyword ownership

you don’t necessarily need a bookmark. eg github.com/new is a reasonable enough shortcut

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