why not just buy a .co.xx (country) or simply .com / .net
and if hectic maybe .io
Never buy a .online domain
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Re: Never buy a .online domain
#192One conclusion is: > Not adding the domain to Google Search Console immediately. I don't understand. What is Google Search Console, and should I add all my domains there right now?
Can't answer if you should add them or not... But if you do - you would get some notifications from Google about that website/domain. I've only ever seen emails of the "There's an increase in 4xx/5xx errors on site/page(s)"
I also get “there were crawl errors”, which upon investigation are for pages that never existed (and I’ve owned the domain for 20 years, so its not a previous owner/operator thing)
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google should not be allowed to make libelous statements without consequences.
(IAAL but this is not legal advice.) It’s not libel. Defamation requires a false statement of fact . Marking a website as “unsafe” is an opinion .
That depends on jurisdiction. E.g. in South Korea true statements can constitute defamation too
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is to stop Google et. al. from also adding a lot of excess domains to pump up there numbers? What is to stop everyone from doing this blacklisting?
Google doesn't sell their list to you. They give it to you for free. Using their list costs them money. Pumping up numbers gains them nothing but the headache of PR issues when they get a false positive. Spyware filters used to boast about how many domains they filter out because they wanted you to buy their filters instead of someone else's. By the time they hit a false positive, they've already sold a year's subscr…
Step 1: Get everyone to use your free internet filter
Step 2: Alter filters to mark newly-registered domains and low-traffic websites as "potentially harmful".
Step 3: Charge a lot of money for "business verification" - which gives them a fancy badge somewhere and incidentally makes their website trustworthy in the eyes of your filter.
Step 4: Profit!
The Big Tech cartel has been doing this pretty successfully with email (see the weekly "Don't self-host your email" posts), why should we assume they are doing anything different with browser-based website blocking?
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google should not be allowed to make libelous statements without consequences.
(IAAL but this is not legal advice.) It’s not libel. Defamation requires a false statement of fact . Marking a website as “unsafe” is an opinion .
That sounds like a spurious distinction. Pretty sure you can’t say “Person X is a murderer” and then say “well I’m only expressing my opinion, and in my opinion if you do something that annoys me that qualifies as murder.”
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#196Are there any other TLDs that are of this ilk or are we saying nothing but .com will ever do? Or .org, perhaps?
.com, .org have legacy contracts eliminating the shenanigans they can pull. .org did try get out of restrictions on hiking the price on renewals, but weren’t successful. So all my domains are either .com, .org or the TLD for the country where I live (of course, how trustworthy your local ccTLD is varies)
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#197Last year, my registrar wanted €64,99 to extend an online domain which I had created for fun. No thanks.
yeah same here. I canceled my account on name.com because I had previously obtained a .art domain maybe for ~15-20 USD / yr. Then they wanted $50 USD a year to extend it. No thanks, dropped the domain and moved to namecheap
Namecheap does the same thing though, at least they did with an .online domain I have.
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#198The logic doesn't automatically extend to other TLDs unless they too are owned by the same firm. Alternative TLDs are often preferable because they're so much cheaper than wasting money on a .com, etc.
Most alternative tlds are more expensive than .com after first year teaser rates expire though
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#199I'm sorry that the author got bitten by this. But .com purism is funny to me. I only buy GTLDs for personal projects, and I've never had a problem before. But then, I've never bought .online.
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
They got sold to private equity, unfortunately. I switched to Bookmyname (by Scaleway) for some TLDs, and Infomaniak for others.
Can we trust Cloud registrars like Bookmyname/Scaleway, Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare more than Namecheap, Gandi and co?
More than what Gandi was? No.
More than what Gandi is now? 100%