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or f.ing for $129,999/yr
I know one-letter domains are popular, but honestly this doesn't seem worth 10x fuck.ing at least to me
You might settle for squirt.ing ....
The .ing top-level domain
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#112So is the way this works that Google pays a bunch of money to ICANN, and then they get the .ing TLD, and can make money by selling individual .ing domains? Is there like a bidding process that ICANN uses to decided who gets the TLD in the first place?
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#113Number 1 on the list of things we didn’t need.
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#114What are the limits to what can be a new TLD nowadays? Because this seems a bit disappoint.ing and disgust.ing.
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#115I checked for cod.ing and they said it was available. I got my hopes up and went to Godaddy. It costs over $38,000. I guess in some ways that’s good because the purchaser would more likely be someone who wants to launch a legit business or project rather than a squatter. But as others have pointed out, this whole thing is a blatant money grab.
I miss the early days of the internet when the playing field was level. You could actually get a really cool/good/interesting domain just by thinking of it first, not by being rich.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where does this land legally now? Could Microsoft go to ICANN and demand you hand it over for the registration fee or is it first come first serve?
Did everyone forget about the Mike Rowe Soft ordeal? 17 year old Mike Rowe started his own web company and named it MikeRoweSoft.com (on purpose, he knew he was making a pun.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft
For a teen it shows some balls. But he basically would have would have gotten trouble in most jurisdictions with this name.
You could not run an auction site as ibay.com
But you could still use the string in another context. e.g. eBayern
(Bayern=Bavaria)
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#117Re: The .ing top-level domain
#118I checked for cod.ing and they said it was available. I got my hopes up and went to Godaddy. It costs over $38,000. I guess in some ways that’s good because the purchaser would more likely be someone who wants to launch a legit business or project rather than a squatter. But as others have pointed out, this whole thing is a blatant money grab.
I miss the early days of the internet when the playing field was level. You could actually get a really cool/good/interesting domain just by thinking of it first, not by being rich.
There should be some system in place like you can only have X% of domains not being actively used for a legitimate purpose. And if you fall below, you will need to pick Y domains to relinquish or they will be randomly relinquished for you.
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#119Re: The .ing top-level domain
#120I checked for cod.ing and they said it was available. I got my hopes up and went to Godaddy. It costs over $38,000. I guess in some ways that’s good because the purchaser would more likely be someone who wants to launch a legit business or project rather than a squatter. But as others have pointed out, this whole thing is a blatant money grab.
I hate the premium domain concept.