It's like they're trying to turn the address bar into a terminal. I really don't get it.
They're trying to make some extra $$$ before Chrome starts hiding the TLD for user convenience
Google Announces .new Domain Availability
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Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability
#12As mentioned on the linked page, http://docs.new, http://sheets.new, and http://slides.new exist as shortcuts to get to a new google doc, but it doesn't play well with Chrome's address bar - using them makes getting to existing docs and sheets take an extra step. Not the worst, but still, kind of annoying.
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#13There's a requirements list, by the way:
"That means that all .new domains registrations must:
- Be used for action generation or online content creation;
- Take the user directly into the action generation or content creation flow;
- Resolve to the action within 100 days of registration;* and
- Allow Google Registry to verify compliance at no cost."
Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability
#14It's like they're trying to turn the address bar into a terminal. I really don't get it.
How so?
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#15$452 per year on Gandi (I queried two-letter names up to a dozen; they were all the same price). I get there is some cost to enforcing the intent of the TLD, but that seems rather high to query a domain and check. It should take all but a few minutes.
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#16I'm looking forward to .old
I'm really sad that registering clin.sucks would cost me $250USD or whatever. The intent of the TLD seller is to hold companies to ransom (buy yourcompany.sucks, or someone that hates you will).
I'd kill clin.sucks as a mail domain.
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#17So the stated use case is for 'performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it.' So it's expecting users to go to a different website to perform one specific action, and then return to the original website? If I'm on github.com, click the new repo button, and get redirected to 'repo.new' I'm assuming the website has been hacked. If I want t…
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 typing. That’s the idea here.
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#18I'm looking forward to .old
I'm really sad that registering clin.sucks would cost me $250USD or whatever. The intent of the TLD seller is to hold companies to ransom (buy yourcompany.sucks, or someone that hates you will). I'd kill clin.sucks as a mail domain.
Even without the TLD, someone could register a multitude of other names, e.g., brandsucks.com. Or brandreallysucks.com. You couldn't buy all of them.
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#19Why do we need this?
Why would TLDs need to be created based on need? What’s wrong with a company making a TLD as a whimsical cute idea (and still expecting to be profitable doing so, because whimsical people will go along with it)?
Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability
#20So the stated use case is for 'performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it.' So it's expecting users to go to a different website to perform one specific action, and then return to the original website? If I'm on github.com, click the new repo button, and get redirected to 'repo.new' I'm assuming the website has been hacked. If I want t…
I just have no idea why anyone would use a whole .new domain to achieve the stated purpose!
Domain squatting is so last decade. The 20's are going to be all about corporate TLD squatting.