If you want liv.ing, it's only $4,000 a year!
Interestingly, dy.ing is the same price.
The .ing top-level domain
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Re: The .ing top-level domain
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
i mean, if you can't get fuck.ing/cool, you can go with reallyfuck.ing/cool or getsurf.ing gosurf.ing learnsurf.ing or justhang.ing/out etc I think I'm at my limit of dumb domain names for no reason though, so I'll pass on this round.
Reallyfuckingcool.net or .org available, same for getsurfing, learnsurfing and justhangingout. With all these domains there’s no real point unless you are getting a dictionary word or a specific name, imho.
Which just outlines how it is a money-grab for existing property owners. Yet another stupid vanity domain you're forced to add to your portfolio!
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#173So as I understand, they sold the Google domain business to Squarespace but will keep Google Registry with all its questioning new TLDs like .zip.
They're adding ".mov" too. Freaking amazing from a threat actor's point of view.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those who are unaware 'engineering' in Swiss German is "Ingenieurwissenschaften"
Is that an obvious association to the relavent audience? Mixing the French “suisse” with the German abbreviated “ing” is a little odd to my (french) eyes. Or is suisse also common in Swiss German?
IDK how representative I am but as a German "Suisse" is clearly referring to Switzerland (maybe because it's in some Swiss brand names, e.g. Credit Suisse?) and my two associations with "ing" are ING direct banking and industrial engineering (outside the Bachelor/Master system the degree title prefix for a professional engineer was/is commonly indicated as "Dipl. Ing.").
But I wouldn't overthink this. Someone likely pitched this as a clever marketing campaign to show "technological leadership" (the news section has an article dedicated to the site being one of the first .ing domains as if this is a meaningful technological achievement) and got funding for it. That doesn't mean the site will be there or be maintained a few years from now.
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#175Launched today but all those companies already have registered the domains? So the public didn't get fair access to draw.ing??
Welcome to American capitalism...where there always seems to be an inner circle or initial group of people who already got first chance at something, and then for the rest of us they simply tells us, "hey, everything is equally attainable by everyone, you just have to work hard at it...nothing is given out for free...yada yada..." This whole domain name business is such a BS money grab.
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#176I am gett.ing tired of Google/Alphabet using their de facto "CEO of internet searches" position to coerce new gTLDs galore. Considering the setup fees mentioned somewhere below, I'm not too sure good old modern-art-style money laundering isn't involved either.
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#177Not to be confused with Google selling their Domain business to SquareSpace
Re: The .ing top-level domain
#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those who are unaware 'engineering' in Swiss German is "Ingenieurwissenschaften"
Is that an obvious association to the relavent audience? Mixing the French “suisse” with the German abbreviated “ing” is a little odd to my (french) eyes. Or is suisse also common in Swiss German?
No, Suisse isn't common in Swiss German at all, except for the 'brand', e.g. same as Swiss.
suisse.ing is really weird though for someone like me who is from Switzerland and speaks German and English.
Re: The .ing top-level domain
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those who are unaware 'engineering' in Swiss German is "Ingenieurwissenschaften"
Is that an obvious association to the relavent audience? Mixing the French “suisse” with the German abbreviated “ing” is a little odd to my (french) eyes. Or is suisse also common in Swiss German?
Given that French cantons don't speak German and German cantons would rather speak English than be caught speaking French, no, I doubt this linguistic concoction is obvious to either.
Might work in Fribourg, which is bilingual, but that's still a stretch.
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#180The temptation is strong to drop 3.75k on bl.ing