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

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Post by account42 »

berkes wrote: post #181
gary_0 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have said to just use dot-org once upon at time, but then this happened: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-2020-... In the meantime, at least thepiratebay.org is still up... and now that I think of it, it's a good canary for the integrity of dot-org.

It is blocked on a provider level by some jurisdictions, though. This is what I see in .nl: https://imgur.com/a/4A0PsHh Translated title is: > This page has been made inaccessible by court order. So I think the integrity of .org is of little consequence if traffic to it gets blocked on provider level.

That's an issue with your country and one that you can easily work around by e.g. running your own recursive resolver or using one that does not care about your countries orders.

TLDs kicking out unsavory websites is global and does not have any automated workarounds.

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

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Post by account42 »

digging wrote: post #69
orenlindsey wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish TLDs were decentralized so that goofy stuff like this would never happen. It (having companies and entities own and control TLDs) never should have happened in the first place.

Countries should have their own TLDs, but they should be more obvious and/or not available to the public.

ccTLDs were obvious until ICANN opened the floodgates to new gTLDs.

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

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Post by account42 »

ado__dev wrote: post #12

I wish they didn't require a minimum of 2 years for domain registrations.

I wish all domain registrations had a minimum of at least ten years.

We should encourage URLs that stay around and discourage speculators and other squatters.

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

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Post by sdsd »

account42 wrote: post #194
sdsd wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

the domain i was looking at is $1.80/yr so im not upset at the price, and its just for silly personal stuff so if they increase price i could just switch to something else.

good to know about the risks of price hikes though!

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

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Post by Razengan »

dang wrote: post #75
blueyes wrote: post #45

typo in headline "windfallf" @dang

fixedf. thanks!

Dang, why was "The Best Headset Yet" removed from the title of this Apple Vision Pro review post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39190468

but "Magic, until it's not" is left standing in this post's title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39190506

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

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Post by sunnybeetroot »

anderber wrote: post #71
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?

Notion for some reason still use Somalia (.so)

And that was a big problem for them a couple of years ago.

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

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Post by cqqxo4zV46cp »

account42 wrote: post #194
sdsd wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

“A fool” is beyond dramatic.

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

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Post by toyg »

bonzini wrote: post #20
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?

.cc (Cocos Island) was used most famously by Arduino. .cx (Christmas Island) domains were relatively common some 20 years ago, iirc because of some dynamic DNS provider. And of course .io is the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean territories

Western Samoa (.ws) briefly enjoyed fleeting popularity when SOAP was ushering in a golden age of enterprise astronauts...

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

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Post by toyg »

progbits wrote: post #43
whycome wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...)

OK I know this sounds kind of shitty but hear me out for the sake of argument. If there is some political issue and say .ai domains are taken over, what's stopping IANA from just taking over that TLD and moving the zone to some other entity? Most domains there are owned by international business and some IANA members might want to keep them running.

Nothing, just some arbitration process that may or may not adjudicate against them.

There have been a few disputes around certain ccTLDs, in the end it's a mixture of political and commercial interests that need ad-hoc mediation in most cases.

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

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Post by toyg »

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?

.IT is the Italian ccTLD /. One would think it would be a slam-dunk for, y'know, IT companies; but the infamous Italian bureaucratic sentiment ensured that registrations were, for decades, limited to Italy-based businesses (at one point, even individuals were barred....). I don't know if it's still the case.
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