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Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by codingdave »

ralmidani wrote: post #73

I 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.

It is worse than that - it costs $38,000 if you pre-register to buy it in December. It costs $1.3 Million if you want to snag it today.

This is beyond a money grab.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by mywittyname »

SXX wrote: post #47
ge96 wrote: post #15

nice, going to open a lot of doors imagine someone automates buying all the verbs(?)

It's exactly what Google want you to do. They made majority verbs prohibitevely expensive premium domains to take their cut.

Which is extra dumb because people won't recognize danc.ing as a legitimate domain and the owners are going to have to pay up for dancing.com or end up with a cheaper alternative called like thedancingapp.com.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by CydeWeys »

codingdave wrote: post #141
ralmidani wrote: post #73

I 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.

It is worse than that - it costs $38,000 if you pre-register to buy it in December. It costs $1.3 Million if you want to snag it today. This is beyond a money grab.

It's called a Dutch or descending price auction and it's a commonly used price-setting mechanism.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by CydeWeys »

az226 wrote: post #118
abroadwin wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There isn't remotely any possible way to enforce this. There are thousands of registrars out there and there's no way to know all the domains owned by a single person or company. Even if you solve that problem, now you'd just have domain squatters spinning up shell LLCs.

Also you have no way to properly define "legitimate".

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by baz00 »

YeahThisIsMe wrote: post #87
baz00 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not joking I seriously considered snagging that. Reckon I could turn a profit. The I realised I'd have to deal with the people who'd want to buy it and they are mostly scum.

Sounds like the perfect group of people to take financial advantage of.

That is fine until they make much more money exploiting people than I did exploiting them.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by CydeWeys »

hleszek wrote: post #139

Apparently it is only possible to do a pre-registration of a domain name. I just bought a .ing for 23,07€ / year on godaddy but someone else could still get that domain before me? What happens in that case? Would I be refunded?

Yes, you won't pay for it if you don't end up getting it.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by CydeWeys »

waythenewsgoes wrote: post #137
saghm wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions

In theory this is beneficial as it helps fund the ICANN and keep it independent. But the reality is that these are effectively money printing machines, effectively out of reach for all but large corporations, which bring questionable value to the internet in general. I selfishly hope that we can establish a free TLD, or at least one which just directly funds ICANN operations instead of benefitting rich middle men.

Free TLDs end up full of bad actors and then face significant legal problems as a result (which they can't afford to defend). See e.g.: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/sued-by-meta-freenom-hal...
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