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Post by donmcronald »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #22

Everyone should have learned from .io that this is risky. Thought after the fallout from that there seemed to be a trend away from those ccTLDs and back to traditional ones and then of course the big release of so many new ones that gave lots of options, the ccTLDs as 'trendy' shouldn't be a thing anymore.

I'm always surprised when I see people building businesses on any of the ccTLDs. The only one I would use is .ca, but that's because I'm from Canada.

There are no guarantees with ccTLDs and any problems that come up might be exacerbated by language and cultural barriers. Regardless, I have the .co, .me, and .io that match my best .com domain even though I'll never use them. I'd do the same for .ai, but it's too expensive.

Even the new gTLDs are iffy depending on your risk tolerance. In my opinion, the only truly "safe" domains since ICANN removed most price controls [1] are .com and .net. Also, many of the new gTLD registries are owned by Ethos Capital via Identity Digital [2] (Donuts + Afilias).

> In January 2021, Ethos Capital acquired Donuts after their failed bid to gain control over the .org internet domain. [3]

Similar to ccTLDs, I'd only register domains on many of the new gTLDs for brand protection and wouldn't use them or rely on them.

I wouldn't say to never use those TLDs, but I would use a strategy that only relies on them for shortening URLs and redirecting traffic to top tier TLDs. For example:

    somecompany.balloons --> somecompanyballoons.com
And never let a non-premium new gTLD registration lapse if there's a chance you want to use it. AFAIK, domains can't be reclassified as premium while they're registered, but they can, and do, get reclassified after expiration.

1. https://domainnamewire.com/2019/06/30/domain-overseer-lifts-...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Digital

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donuts_(company)

Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

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Post by cheeze »

jedberg wrote: post #96

A really big looming question is what will happen to all the .tv domains, which provide 95% of Tuvalu's GDP (similar to how .ai is for Anguilla). The island is getting warn away by rougher seas and the ocean level is rising thanks to climate change. What happens when the island no longer exists? Does the country still exist? Should the .tv domain still exist? When Yugoslavia broke up they shut down its TLD, but this…

> which provide 95% of Tuvalu's GDP

Source? I've never seen this number before. I've seen 8.4% of government revenue, and ~1/12 of GNI but never 95% of GDP...

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Post by xigoi »

loktarogar wrote: post #91
yieldcrv wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in my world that was true 10 years ago, except it wasnt a cop out: nobody needed .coms but nobody knew it yet because of prevailing wisdom over here .xyz is the new .io and nobody cares about the tld that much at all if you’re relying on users to type in your domain name, or SEO, or some form of legitimacy with an equally as antiquated crowd, you’ve already failed and need to scrap the idea

I only seem to see .xyz in the crypto space (and alphabet inc). Generally it's a crypto scam pushed at me in a twitter/x ad. What are some other players on the .xyz tld?

One of the lecturers at my faculty has his academic website on an .xyz domain.

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Post by kristianp »

whycome wrote: post #18

Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?

Montenegro: .me

I assumed it was a domain created for personal sites, but it turns out its for the country.

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Post by Astraco »

jedberg wrote: post #96

A really big looming question is what will happen to all the .tv domains, which provide 95% of Tuvalu's GDP (similar to how .ai is for Anguilla). The island is getting warn away by rougher seas and the ocean level is rising thanks to climate change. What happens when the island no longer exists? Does the country still exist? Should the .tv domain still exist? When Yugoslavia broke up they shut down its TLD, but this…

Soviet Union (.su) it's still around. Even if Tuvalu disappears (it won't) someone else would take care of the TLD.

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Post by verve_rat »

jedberg wrote: post #96

A really big looming question is what will happen to all the .tv domains, which provide 95% of Tuvalu's GDP (similar to how .ai is for Anguilla). The island is getting warn away by rougher seas and the ocean level is rising thanks to climate change. What happens when the island no longer exists? Does the country still exist? Should the .tv domain still exist? When Yugoslavia broke up they shut down its TLD, but this…

There is at least one landless sovereign entity at the moment[1], but they don't have a ccTLD as far as I know.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_...

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Post by Beijinger »

jedberg wrote: post #96

A really big looming question is what will happen to all the .tv domains, which provide 95% of Tuvalu's GDP (similar to how .ai is for Anguilla). The island is getting warn away by rougher seas and the ocean level is rising thanks to climate change. What happens when the island no longer exists? Does the country still exist? Should the .tv domain still exist? When Yugoslavia broke up they shut down its TLD, but this…

Well, fuck.yu became fuck.me

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Post by donmcronald »

giarc wrote: post #61
jakub_g wrote: post #14

$3M per month, 15k residents, so roughly $200 per resident per month. Not bad.

"They’ve eliminated property taxes on residential buildings." What a great thing for the country.

> What a great thing for the country.

Not necessarily. The risk with any kind of external subsidy is that it may not last forever. Imagine if that happened wherever you live. Once everyone's accustomed to $0 in property tax, what would happen if you suddenly had to put those taxes back in place? Would it stall the economy if the tax burden was high enough?

IMHO, the best way to deal with windfall money like that is to put it into a wealth fund or use it to build infrastructure. That way you don't become dependent on it and, if the money stops flowing after a while, you at least have some long term infrastructure to show for it.

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