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I'm from Israel, and this is the first time I've heard about the .קום tld. I've never seen any website that uses it. The author mentioned that creating a new tld costs a minimum of 185k USD. This makes me wonder who would pay this kind of money for this completely useless tld.
That actually seems quite useful, if people are typing not realizing the keyboard is set to Hebrew.
I'm from Israel, and this is the first time I've heard about the .קום tld. I've never seen any website that uses it. The author mentioned that creating a new tld costs a minimum of 185k USD. This makes me wonder who would pay this kind of money for this completely useless tld.
If they managed it for only $185k I'm impressed, maybe if you did several on the same infrastructure. It's a gold mine offering. There was a long queue of people quite sure that .binglebongle would be the new .com. Sometimes it was a marginally less stupid plan, like we can be a regional alternative - and Russia even has one that's actually making money - it isn't taking over the world, but it's Cyrillic and was neve…
While everyone here has certainly heard of Softbank, I find it amusing that they have their own TLD too (with sites like https://group.softbank/).
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Even better yet, it would be interesting if we just abandoned TLDs. There is no reason why http://google/ can't work, really, with a bunch of infrastructure changes.
Infrastructure changes aren't even needed; Google already owns the .google TLD. All they would need to do is attach an A record to the root.
I maintain a list at captnemo.in/tld-a-record
Registering unambiguous trademark domains falls under the category of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
Could anything worse than losing out on the registration fees ever actually happen?
There's all downside and no upside to playing this particular stupid game.
Registering unambiguous trademark domains falls under the category of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
Could anything worse than losing out on the registration fees ever actually happen?
So this "enterprise security" company encourages end users to put information such as passwords into www.terriblesecuritycompanyname.com/owa.office365.com for example. Of course everyone has SSO enabled for Office 365 but everyone is also used to SSO sometimes breaking and falling back to forms based auth so people have no issue typing their passwords into any page that looks somewhat legit as long as the URL is close to what they expect and has a little lock next to it.
Anyway www.turriblesecuritycompanyname.com is available and I'm waiting for someone nefarious to purchase it and start sending phishing emails with links to www.turriblesecuritycompany.com/owa.office365.com embedded in them.
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Even better yet, it would be interesting if we just abandoned TLDs. There is no reason why http://google/ can't work, really, with a bunch of infrastructure changes.
Infrastructure changes aren't even needed; Google already owns the .google TLD. All they would need to do is attach an A record to the root.
I'm from Israel, and this is the first time I've heard about the .קום tld. I've never seen any website that uses it. The author mentioned that creating a new tld costs a minimum of 185k USD. This makes me wonder who would pay this kind of money for this completely useless tld.
.קום is just .com transliterated into Hebrew letters, right? That actually seems quite useful, if people are typing not realizing the keyboard is set to Hebrew.
It appears that they don't match to the TLD letters here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_keyboard
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>their "all-encompassing" TLD package which registers their trademark across all TLD's for a special price That's a thing? What's preventing a predatory registry from being a holdout and demanding exorbitant prices?
That is a thing for at least one Registry that I know of (and worked for), I don't know if Google does the same, but I don't believe there is anything stopping them (please correct me if I'm wrong).