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Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Shotgun on your.self! That’s going to yield a ton of great second level sub domains :)

hug.your.self

serve.your.self

dancing.with.my.self

reference.self

interest.self

pleasure.self

gratification.self

b.true@to.thine.own.self

touch.a.touch.a.touch.a.touch.me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x92ccvZCzlg

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

#143

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It's not clear whether they're actually talking about domains or subdomains there, which is a worrying sign from a potential registrar.

Any domain that isn't one of the Top Level Domains is also a subdomain.

Isn't the actual top level domain an empty one after TLD? Looking like «.com.» with trailing dot

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

#144
post #122

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And the .sy boom until startups got enough heat for, you know, funding the Assad regime.

Apparently nobody cares that .af is now funding the Taliban

The terms of using that tld say it must comply with Sharia law

pretty strict and apparently the Minister of that agency doesnt care that .af is a domain hack for “as fuck” in the west

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

#145
post #9

Shotgun on your.self! That’s going to yield a ton of great second level sub domains :)

We are probably going to reserve some of the more obvious ones for specific purposes, e.g. my.self automatically pointing to a homepage on your local network. As we go through the gTLD evaluation process we will be keen to solicit feedback from the community on more specifics!

And the slang and typos? (ur.self, mi.self, his.self, there.self, ther.self, theyre.self, they.self, ...)

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

#146
post #54
post #38

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Tailnet and Magic DNS make it easy to bring other people or devices to your network, including simple authentication mechanisms to know who is who

A VPN is literally a… (Very) Private Network.

Virtual, not Very

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

#148

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.duckdns.org. works fine, and being "beholden" to ICANN is no worse than being a client of one of the big traditional gTLDs. If you want "one person, one name", well, .name is there for that. It's a commons-pollution problem. Are we going to have to start thinking of every word with a dot in the middle as a potential name? IMHO, a new gTLD is justifiable only when there's some concrete differentiator attached to it,…

> It's a commons-pollution problem. Are we going to have to start thinking of every word with a dot in the middle as a potential name? IMHO, a new gTLD is justifiable only when there's some concrete differentiator attached to it, e.g. .local indicating mDNS, or .it indicating "Italy" So the new gTLD round is open right now, we're getting more TLDs whether we like it or not. Our goal is to make one that has features b…

It just feels a bit like you've decided to solve the hardest possible side quest first.

Everything else on your roadmap could have been built and shipped in the universe that exists, and then if down the road it's working, you could have aimed for your own TLD.

Instead you're putting the TLD first and any of the actual functionality that end users might want afterwards.

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

#149
post #84

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What a memory you have unlocked. They were everywhere. I remember the urban legend that .tk domains were X% of their GDP

10% apparently for .tk. I also remember .tv windfall, which is 8-9% of their GDP.

The .ai TLD is some tiny island with a few thousand people
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