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I'd at least define it as "not just parked for profit."
But it's trivial to just put something on these domains like Wikipedia picture of the day or whatnot, and who's to say that's not "valid"? It's just that no one bothers now because they don't need to. In principle I agree, but I don't really see how it can be solved in a practical way without a lot of collateral damage.
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.
Well, fuck.ing costs only $12,999.99/yr.
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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.
reallyfuckingcool.ing
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.
Conspiracy theory here: if you go to a big player like GoDaddy they'll sell their queries and some party will see the domain you want and squat it unless you register right away. Just use the whois command in your terminal.
Launched today but all those companies already have registered the domains? So the public didn't get fair access to draw.ing??
Great. There's a Dutch bank called ING. I can't wait for all the phish.ing to start. IMHO all those new TLDs are just a huge mistake and a blatant money-grab.
Ugh, when I saw the HN headline about this TLD I thought it belonged to ING Group, just like .barclays and .chase belong to their corporate owners. Just shows how suited this TLD is for phishing...
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Every new TLD is a new opportunity for making money, and that’s why they won’t be going away anytime soon.
But making websites harder to find also costs money. "Was it 'draw.ing', 'drawi.ng', or just 'draw.com'? Screw it I'm using Powerpoint." Although I suppose making websites harder to find would increase Google searches...
Though now, even with a search, which “draw” result is the right one. The TLD can’t be used as much of a filter anymore.
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But making websites harder to find also costs money. "Was it 'draw.ing', 'drawi.ng', or just 'draw.com'? Screw it I'm using Powerpoint." Although I suppose making websites harder to find would increase Google searches...
I think most people already bank on people searching for sites vs remembering domain names. Though now, even with a search, which “draw” result is the right one. The TLD can’t be used as much of a filter anymore.
But that can't be entirely true, or else Canva wouldn't have purchased draw.ing in the first place, they'd just stick with Canva.com.
The whole reason these TLDs are desirable is because they create easy-to-remember addresses.