.ly seems to be really popular as well for startups although I'm kinda curious as to the civil war in Libya is going to affect it in the future.
The story of .io
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Re: The story of .io
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
You had me nodding in agreement when I thought you were standing up against slacktivism and outrage-bait. Then I got puzzled when you started railing against consumerism and its consequences. Finally I realized you were just nostalgic for when the internet wasn't mainstream -- as if you are starved for open forums on today's internet. I think your real issue is that regular "lower and middle class Americans" are also…
I liked the claim that political correctness killed racism and pedophilia. If that's the case then I'm all for it!
You haven't killed racism or pedophilia, you moron. You've created an environment where you can continue to misunderstand them. You've continued the tradition of denying to try to understand them and actually make progress on the issues.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
>about: https://nicky.io make way for the 20 year old whining about political correctness
> - The Unabomber Manifesto - Ted Kaczynski That's a really weird thing to have as a favorite writing and to advertise.
From my original comment on this article:
> [the internet was a place where] Anyone could publish and be heard and read about certain taboo subjects and not be publicly shamed for entertaining a certain thought.
It's hilarious to me that you're doing just that.
You're trying to shame me for finding some ideas interesting simply because it came from a crazy person? Does finding a piece of writing interesting imply that I agree with it or the actions of the person who wrote it? Are you going to shame me for finding van Gogh's art beautiful in spite of the fact that he cut his ear off? Have you ever even read what I'm referencing?
Re: The story of .io
#44For obvious reasons, I wanted a `.md` domain but those are expensive... also for obvious reasons. This is a rather unfortunate and common result of our DNS system.
And they are also quite pricey for locals too, given our fragile economy. We're not some inhabited island in the ocean.
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#45Is there a policy for what happens to ccTLD if a country changes its name or disappears?
Czechoslovakia had .cs domain for very short moment. Not sure what happened to it.
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#46I lack an ability to put into words just how much I hate the tone of this article and the tone of this author. Particularly this last line. > As we build new worlds with our technologies, knitted from fiber-optic light and lines of code, it is incumbent on us to ensure it does not reproduce the erasures and abuses of the old, but properly accounts for the rights and liberties of every one of us. Why has every Silicon…
Cynicism like this only leads to self imposed amorality. It makes stagnation a self fulfilling prophecy. You're basically making a bandwagon argument that humans historically have abused power, so this frees anyone in tech from any obligation to try to not abuse power. This is an absurd argument because it precludes progress. There's a fair criticism of bleeding heart syndrome in the article. It's not the job of "tec…
"The only way things improve is by large numbers of people speaking out. Power has no inherent motive to change, people need to push."
Please provide a real-world example of when this has most recently happened in any situation important enough to actually "count". The abuse exists everywhere you look, and there is never, ever, any serious backlash against it. The problem is that 99.99% of the population can care, but it only takes 0.01% willing to take advantage of the remaining population.
There will never be a sense of justice in such things. People who want the power will always take it, and there is nothing that will change that. Cynicism is not a negative trait, it's the bloody goddamn truth of our species. It sucks, but that's how things work. There is no changing this. It's simply not in the cards. Anyone who disagrees is either full of themselves or totally blind to the way the world works.
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#47I lack an ability to put into words just how much I hate the tone of this article and the tone of this author. Particularly this last line. > As we build new worlds with our technologies, knitted from fiber-optic light and lines of code, it is incumbent on us to ensure it does not reproduce the erasures and abuses of the old, but properly accounts for the rights and liberties of every one of us. Why has every Silicon…
>We're not superheros or magicians
No, but we are the architects and general contractors of the internet. Sure as web developers and engineers at small companies we don't have vast decision making power, but as a whole especially in the open source community the distributed power we all possess is really something magical that will define the future of the web as a whole.
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#48.IO is truly just a phenomenon that "just happened." It collectively rolled out and picked up momentum with each new domain registration. I remember a few years back when I started seeing a few here and there pop up. Right away as an old school Linux veteran I thought it was cute and "got" the idea. No one planned this, and even if they did it wasn't the master plan that created the popularity of .IO.
.IO has only commercialized within the web developer and b2b communities. I'm not saying that in a negative way, it is however a billion dollar industry at least. I really appreciate the post from a historical standpoint and hope in some way the popularity of .io will some way contribute to this territory.
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#49Is there a policy for what happens to ccTLD if a country changes its name or disappears?
Check out the story of the .su (Soviet Union) domain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/may/31/ussr-cyber...
Is there a way to buy them?
I have an eu domain but I want a su domain as well :D
Re: The story of .io
#50.IO is truly just a phenomenon that "just happened." It collectively rolled out and picked up momentum with each new domain registration. I remember a few years back when I started seeing a few here and there pop up. Right away as an old school Linux veteran I thought it was cute and "got" the idea. No one planned this, and even if they did it wasn't the master plan that created the popularity of .IO. .IO has only co…
> a billion dollar industry at least
The latest stats I could find [1] put the total number of .io domains at around one million. Even if you assume $100 registration fee (you can get one for much less), it's still 900m shy of a billion.
[1] http://blog.park.io/articles/enormous-growth-of-io-domains/