My cue to mention http://ai which used to link to the registrar
How does this work? Are there other domains like this? I've never seen it before!
.ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
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#22Everyone 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.
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#23I've said it before [0-4], I'll say it again -- mind your TLD. They have about as much control and influence over your traffic as a VPN, except even your users are at their mercy. Do not choose a TLD based on trends. [0]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1686148772831846402 "TLDs are almost as bad as VPNs in terms of the magnitude of trust you need to commit to another entity for your online survival. Always do thor…
Basing your entire business on a ccTLD is very risky. All it takes is a coup and boom you’re toast.
It may be a good choice if it is your local ccTLD, your country is fairly stable and your customers are fine with it.
For example .de is the perfect choice if you are a German company servicing primarily the German market.
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#24Tuvalu (.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?
.io quite infamously https://www.thewebmaster.com/archived/io-tld-top-level-domai...
I legit didn't realize that .io was a TLD for a country/state.
Also, that article is wild!
In the future, we'll have a coup in some country and it will cause web chaos just from the TLD issue. (I've seen first-hand how some countries handle their ccTLDs...)
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#25My cue to mention http://ai which used to link to the registrar
http://ai./ still works and links to registrar services
http://ai works on a desktop browser and opens the same page - this is the page it used to open - https://web.archive.org/web/20220316164406/http://ai/
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#26Tuvalu (.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?
.co (Colombia) is a fairly popular alternative to .com.
.fi (Finland) was used by crypto/web3 companies during the 2021-22 hype cycle because it associates with finance (as in DeFi = decentralized finance).
.is (Iceland) and .at (Austria) are English words and can be used for cleverish domains that form sentences in URLs, as in: this.is/amazing
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#27My cue to mention http://ai which used to link to the registrar
How does this work? Are there other domains like this? I've never seen it before!
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#28Tuvalu (.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?
.tk was all the rage when I was younger, early 2000s something. You got a top level domain for free! Of course, they would just serve your webpage through a frameset with ads surrounding it unless you paid. But it rocked being able to say "visit my webpage matsemann.tk" instead of home.no.net/users/~matsemann/ (~ on Norwegian keyboard needs an alt+gr combo plus pressing space to show, and back in the days having to explain the direction of slashes also made it hard)
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#29I've said it before [0-4], I'll say it again -- mind your TLD. They have about as much control and influence over your traffic as a VPN, except even your users are at their mercy. Do not choose a TLD based on trends. [0]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1686148772831846402 "TLDs are almost as bad as VPNs in terms of the magnitude of trust you need to commit to another entity for your online survival. Always do thor…
I've been working with domain registrars since 2004, and while I haven't really kept current on the latest trends I do know that our national ccTLD has very good conflict arbitration.
So my suggestion is always to get a TLD where you feel safe that they can help resolve any potential conflicts that might arise.
At least for important networking stuff, your marketing can be on .ai or whatever is buzzing at the moment.
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#30Tuvalu (.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?
.tk was all the rage when I was younger, early 2000s something. You got a top level domain for free! Of course, they would just serve your webpage through a frameset with ads surrounding it unless you paid. But it rocked being able to say "visit my webpage matsemann.tk" instead of home.no.net/users/~matsemann/ (~ on Norwegian keyboard needs an alt+gr combo plus pressing space to show, and back in the days having to e…
Except for https://tcl.tk/ of course!