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Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by ben509 »

joshstrange wrote: post #134

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 bef…

The new TLDs are very much selling as a branding thing. How business owners value marketing and branding is very hard to understand.

On a practical note, if you are gunning for a promotion, setting up "widget.new" would make for a cool demo for management.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by sk84life »

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.

Exactly what I was thinking too.. well said. BigUp!

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by sk84life »

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.

Anyway.. anything Google or Facebook does these days.. give me creeps .. I am worried that internet evolution is going towards corporate censorship with licences and we have to have lifeline socket open to Google's data center 247.

That's real HALLOWEEN for me tbh.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by ozzmotik »

tobltobs wrote: post #153
account42 wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That part is actually positive though - if you want to squat a domain for over 100 days too bad.

And how is that supposed to work in reality if your project takes more then 100 days to build?

start building it locally and then only buy the domain once it's close to complete?

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by nilsandrey »

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.

I'm using with some friends a thing like that...https://telegra.ph/ The only problem is if you don't access from Telegram then it's accessible for editing just in the authoring device. The good thing for some people is that is very useful for tethered connections.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by tobltobs »

ozzmotik wrote: post #164
tobltobs wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And how is that supposed to work in reality if your project takes more then 100 days to build?

start building it locally and then only buy the domain once it's close to complete?

What has the "where you built it" to do with the domain name?
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