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

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Post by walthamstow »

jedberg wrote: post #106
reactordev wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m sure since it would no longer be a country TLD, you could easily say it’s a media TLD. Crisis averted. However, registrar responsibilities would be elsewhere. Google perhaps. Or maybe someone else. I’m sure that .tv is so ubiquitous that it falls under several categories.

That would be a possible solution but they would have to agree to change the rules for TLDs or make an exception, because right now the rules are very clear that only countries can have two letter TLDs.

Also `.gb`, which is an island.

Then you get into British Overseas Territories (like Anguilla!) and French Overseas Departments (e.g. Reunion). Are they countries? Sort of, but not really?

Even within the UK it's tricky. Is Scotland a country? I don't think so, but a lot of Scots do.

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

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Post by thaumasiotes »

robbiejs wrote: post #164

There is also the .je domain name, I think for Jersey Islands. "je" can be appended to most Dutch words making it "smaller". For example Hond (dog) Hondje (small dog) I own the domain name https://site.je . I wanted to put a cms on it. It's up for sale btw :-)

> "je" can be appended to most Dutch words making it "smaller".

Equally true in English, though it's spelled variously -ie or -y.

Dog (hond) doggie (hondje)

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

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Post by account42 »

farco12 wrote: post #146
Etheryte wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

abc.xyz?

Alphabet is not a company most people interact with directly so their website address doesn't matter at all.

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Post by account42 »

sdsd wrote: post #101
loktarogar wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only seem to see .xyz in the crypto space (and alphabet inc). Generally it's a crypto scam pushed at me in a twitter/x ad. What are some other players on the .xyz tld?

i've seen lots of devs using it for their personal blogs, i guess because it's cheap. personally, im excited to buy an .lol tonight!

.lol is overpriced and worse, can arbitrarily increase the price in the future. Using anything other than an ICANN-controld gTLD (com,net,org,etc.) or a ccTLD (be very careful about ones from countries other than your own) is a fool.

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

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Post by BeFlatXIII »

dcl wrote: post #66
whycome wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fully suspect .CX to see a resurgence as the short form for "customer experience" is really expanding quickly.

How many people would recall goatse every time they saw it though?

Time to see if goat.se has the classic images we all love and expect.

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

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Post by BeFlatXIII »

russellbeattie wrote: post #89

I just want to point out that the huge expansion of TLDs has really affected the prices of domains in the aftermarket. This wasn't true immediately, but average users are used to them now, so if your domain ends with .tech or .plus or .cool or whatever, it doesn't have any sort of non-professional stigma it once had. And there are still plenty of good 'ol .com names still available. You can have an AI company with an…

I'm glad this happened. Means there's less incentive for domain-squatting.

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Post by account42 »

kristianp wrote: post #124
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?

Montenegro: .me I assumed it was a domain created for personal sites, but it turns out its for the country.

It is explicitly marketed for personal sites though and not limited to users in Montenegro (since 2008): https://domain.me/

There's the usual second level domains .co.me, .net.me, .org.me, .gov.me etc. reserved for actual Montenegrin entities.

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Post by account42 »

diggan wrote: post #65
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?

.cat (Catalunya) is frequently used by fans of the animal Cat, but it's for websites that "have a significant amount of contents in Catalan" - https://domini.cat/en/faqs/ .nu (Niue) was originally owned by a Niue non-profit in Massachusetts, US, but was later transferred into Swedish ownership as "nu" means "now" in Swedish and lots of websites in Sweden were using it.

> the animal Cat

Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,

An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;

Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses

Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.

I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,

A singular development of cat communications

That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection

For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.

A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;

You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.

And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,

It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.

O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display

Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.

And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,

I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

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Post by account42 »

joezydeco wrote: post #128
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?

.ie, Ireland.

Why would anyone want an Internet Explorer domain?

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

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Post by account42 »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #22

Everyone should have learned from .io that this is risky. Thought after the fallout from that there seemed to be a trend away from those ccTLDs and back to traditional ones and then of course the big release of so many new ones that gave lots of options, the ccTLDs as 'trendy' shouldn't be a thing anymore.

I'd pick a ccTLD of a stable country over a nuTLD any day.
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