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Post by 8organicbits »

foxmoss wrote: post #80

It's odd ICANN has such a control to effect an countries income just by choosing a good abbreviation. I doubt the creators of the DNS system had any idea that domains would arbitrarily give some countries an extra form of income, profiting from people who could care less about the country it was created for. Why didn't ICANN just charge a flat fee for any string to resolve to an IP?

Think about the original TLDs, there was value in separating commercial, military, and government content. Unfortunately .gov is US government only and .mil is US military only. So each country would presumably want a .gov.[country-code] and .mil.[country-code] suffixes for those same reasons (and many do).

Opening up registration for non-citizens / non-residents is an option each country has. Some restrict registration more than others.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_d...

There's also an important angle that countries can set the terms of service for their ccTLD to match their laws. It's one way to ensure a country has some legislative and enforcement ability over their corner of the web.

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Post by onionisafruit »

whalesalad wrote: post #17
mholt wrote: post #15

I've said it before [0-4], I'll say it again -- mind your TLD. They have about as much control and influence over your traffic as a VPN, except even your users are at their mercy. Do not choose a TLD based on trends. [0]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1686148772831846402 "TLDs are almost as bad as VPNs in terms of the magnitude of trust you need to commit to another entity for your online survival. Always do thor…

Basing your entire business on a ccTLD is very risky. All it takes is a coup and boom you’re toast.

How often does that happen?

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

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Post by onionisafruit »

madsbuch wrote: post #3
dpflan wrote: post #2

This is a great article. It's an interesting phenomenon. How did the `.tv` boom work out? Anyone know registration rates for that domain over time? We are in a big wave of AI hype so the registrations are going to be many for now... """ And it’s just part of the general budget—the government can use it however they want. But I’ve noticed that they’ve paid down some of their debt, which is pretty unusual. They’ve elim…

A shame they don't manage that inflow of money particularly well. Instead of giving tax cuts they should treat it like Norway treats income from oil and make a sovereign wealth fund – oh well...

Why would people tax themselves when they don’t need to?

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Post by pcthrowaway »

dharmab wrote: post #93
actionfromafar wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's odd ISO has such a control to effect an countries income just by choosing a good abbreviation. I doubt the creators of the DNS system had any idea that domains would arbitrarily give some countries an extra form of income, profiting from people who could care less about the country it was created for. Why didn't ISO just charge a flat fee for any string to resolve to an IP?

ISO created the country codes in 1974, prior to the invention of DNS.

Surely some of these country codes have come about after the dawn of DNS.

I wonder if we'll see newly formed countries angling for names that will get valuable abbreviations

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

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Post by pcthrowaway »

palad1n wrote: post #130
timeon wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> big.dk At least I have found what I have expected on that domain.

Haha. There also exists .co.ck, for real.

I'm surprised sucks.co.ck is available. Seems like you could sell subdomains of that.. elon.sucks.co.ck, etc.

I'm not personally willing to gamble on the $500 price tag though

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Post by farco12 »

Etheryte wrote: post #97
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

Singular data point, but I don't think I've ever seen a company that I would take seriously use .xyz.

abc.xyz?

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

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Post by one_buggy_boi »

Beyond the risk associated with using a ccTLD, I've noticed that several Fortune 100 companies are now outright blocking .ai domains because they host content believed to potentially leak intellectual property, especially within the financial services industry. This is something to consider if you're launching a new product targeting such customers and want to avoid having architects/engineers go through the hassle of requesting that your site be added to an allowlist.

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Post by kbaker »

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?

Cameroon .cm is a good one. Close to a typo squat like .co

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

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Post by omeid2 »

rlayton2 wrote: post #133
paulddraper wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Double data point here. In fact, unless you're selling to techies, it's dubious to operate a US business on anything but .com.

Aussie here, we try to get both the .com and the .com.au (and now also the .au), because people will just use one or the other, regardless of what the link says.

I think opening up .au was criminal. Same as the .uk one.

Investor value at the cost of hurting small business by increasing cost or creating confusion.

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

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Post by dessimus »

palad1n wrote: post #135
jonathankoren wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Afghanistan (.af)

Does anybody have one of these? I tried to register one once and the registrar just wouldn't let me.

Call me crazy, but I can't imagine the Taliban regime would be cool with English-speaking entities using their ccTLD for the "AF" meme.
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