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Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

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Post by noduerme »

cottsak wrote: post #2

why would you buy a subdomain for $20/y instead of a regular domain?

I can see a lot of potential here as an alternative for people like me who don't have or want social media accounts. Sometimes I do want to share a profile with people without linking to my business website. But managing a separate domain / server / registration / email / etc. for that purpose hasn't seemed worth it. $20 a year is pretty reasonable.

I think the one thing that would stop me from taking up on a service like this would be the "omg.lol" - it's just a little too off-brand for a guy who wears all black and hates texting. But I can see how a lot of people might be into it.

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

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Post by quickthrower2 »

derefr wrote: post #16
quickthrower2 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main reason is you have more protection and guaranteed continual ownership of the thing (depending on the TLD you choose, of course). Whereas if this service shut down in 12 months time ... well it wouldn't be buckling any trends by doing so. And if they shut down and let the omg.lol lapse or sell it, someone could then redirect all the subdomains to who knows what. Another reason might be domain trust? If spamme…

> Another reason might be domain trust? If spammers use omg.lol subdomains the entire thing might be blacklisted for email. I think that them being on the https://wiki.mozilla.org/Public_Suffix_List makes that unlikely. (a Public Suffix is a thing like .co.uk — would it make sense to blacklist .co.uk? Not unless you're the type of postmaster who is willing to blacklist entire TLDs like .biz as well.)

Ok I didn't know about this list. Feel like I should have known! I always though it was up to countries and top-level operators. I imagined something like .uk publishing somehow that .co.uk is a top level domain, for example.

I think the requirements to run a top level domain, like .lol itself are pretty onerous? But I wonder if it is easier to get your subdomain added to the public suffix list, and I wonder what legal guarantees are afforded to someone who registers such a domain.

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

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Post by cirrus3 »

sdfghjkiuyt wrote: post #11

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What kind of strange conspiracy rabbit holes have you dug yourself into? Take a step back and get out asap. It's just a fun subdomain to have... do you _really_ expect this is some secret initiative to start new social platform to rival "twitter/parler/etc" full of only "neoliberals"? oof. Where in the description did you infer this was in any way attempting to become "the ultimate fix for online discourse"?
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