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.ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

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

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Post by bestcoder69 »

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.

together.xyz, although they’re .ai now

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Post by schoen »

stuartd wrote: post #4

My cue to mention http://ai which used to link to the registrar

You may have trouble on this with systemd-resolved on Linux, which is hard-coded to refuse to resolve TLDs with a single label. :-(

A few years ago I wrongly thought that the ai TLD no longer had an A record because of that. Grumble!

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Post by lionkor »

TillE wrote: post #120
truculent wrote: post #110

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.gg is a bit more niche but I see it occasionally for gaming related sites (Guernsey)

Oh yeah that's a good one, it's become the TLD of choice for at least part of competitive gaming. Particularly melee.gg, but also magic.gg, racetime.gg, maxroll.gg, etc.

discord.gg as well

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Post by notpushkin »

owl57 wrote: post #138
xigoi wrote: post #123

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

Does he speak any Slavic languages? I know a Russian lecturer who does that in part because he considers it funny to use a TLD that looks similar to the obscene word "хуй".

That's a bit weird of an association. I'm Russian and хуй doesn't usually come to my mind when I see xyz.

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Post by resolutebat »

nerdponx wrote: post #114
pavlov wrote: post #26

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.co (Colombia) is a fairly popular alternative to .com. .fi (Finland) was used by crypto/web3 companies during the 2021-22 hype cycle because it associates with finance (as in DeFi = decentralized finance). .is (Iceland) and .at (Austria) are English words and can be used for cleverish domains that form sentences in URLs, as in: this.is/amazing

.co is a interesting case because there's also the convention of ".co.*". Is there a .co.co?

There's a .co.ck for commercial domains in the Cook Islands, such as google.co.ck.

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Post by notpushkin »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #145
palad1n wrote: post #130

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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

.ck has a special policy prohibiting any sort of profanity, and looks like you have to have an administrative contact in the country.

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Post by jonathankoren »

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

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Afghanistan (.af)

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

https://queer.af/about

It’s still up, but it’s going down real soon.

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Post by xavdid »

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?

My personal site uses .id so the site can match my username everywhere: https://xavd.id

I'm really quite fond of it. It's the Indonesian TLD, but there aren't residency requirements (for top-level domains). I've got the relevant `.com`s as a fallback, but I hope this sticks around without drama.

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

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Post by vintagedave »

There seems to be significant domain squatting on .ai. I looked for a simple, non-obviously-AI-related word as a .ai domain a week ago, which was registered but listed as for sale, and the domain registrar suggested it was worth $4M.

That's more than the yearly sales Anguilla makes in total.

Many words and phrases I've looked for in the space are registered but listed as for sale. I suspect this means new sales will slow for Anguilla, and I wonder if as time passes and value drops, renewals will slow too.

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