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Post by omeid2 »

shric wrote: post #161
omeid2 wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think opening up .au was criminal. Same as the .uk one. Investor value at the cost of hurting small business by increasing cost or creating confusion.

I realize you're referring specifically to general .au, but I don't think the average person will think to try foo.au instead of foo.com.au and .com.au isn't opened up to my knowledge. The name must be derived from your registered Australian business (ACN or ABN). I've had a .net.au since 1999 and the same rules apply there.

The domain does not have to be derived form anything, only associated (owned?) with an ABN/ACN. And the bar for registering an ABN is as low as signing up for an email account.

People in Australia use .com.au all the time, domain.au almost looks broken to my eye.

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Post by dang »

Razengan wrote: post #205
dang wrote: post #75

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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

I'm afraid it was probably just random.

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Post by notzane »

dpflan wrote: post #2

This is a great article. It's an interesting phenomenon. How did the `.tv` boom work out? Anyone know registration rates for that domain over time? We are in a big wave of AI hype so the registrations are going to be many for now... """ And it’s just part of the general budget—the government can use it however they want. But I’ve noticed that they’ve paid down some of their debt, which is pretty unusual. They’ve elim…

120k registrations * $30 = $3.6 million last year (minus fees). At the peak (July 2020) they did 140k in a single month.

https://domainnamestat.com/statistics/tld/tv-TLD_ID-1435

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Post by jasomill »

phire wrote: post #162
broodbucket wrote: post #104

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.su still exists. According to this article I found, Tuvaluans are trying to maintain their statehood and maritime rights once they no longer have land. It's uncharted territory for the UN but it strikes me as pretty likely (plus it's a bad look to not throw a bone to a country that the rest of the world played a part in destroying). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/11/tuvalu-seeks-t... My prediction is the…

Tuvalu is also working on a land reclamation project that is designed to keep at least some land above the projected storm surges beyond the year 2100.

They've also amended their constitution in an attempt to maintain statehood even if rising sea levels do overtake the island:

https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/10/12/tuvalu-plans-for-i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Tuvalu#The_cli...

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Post by nerdponx »

resolutebat wrote: post #155
nerdponx wrote: post #114

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.co is a interesting case because there's also the convention of ".co.*". Is there a .co.co?

There's a .co.ck for commercial domains in the Cook Islands, such as google.co.ck.

Too bad there's no such thing as a rooster stud, otherwise "rent-a.co.ck" would be a great domain name.

Not sure what else I'd use it for though...

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Post by whatyesaid »

sdsd wrote: post #204
account42 wrote: post #194

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.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!

First registration is $2 but any renewal is $20 after. A lot of first year domains use different pricing and they are charged differently I think by the TLD holders, so it's not just stupid marketing by like GoDaddy who hopes you don't transfer to another registrar after them taking a loss the first year and huge hike after

A lot of super cheap ones have expensive renewals.

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Post by sentientslug »

p4bl0 wrote: post #36
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?

In the same vein as .tv there is the .fm (Federated States of Micronesia) for radio stations. Also, .ws (Western Samoa), which was sold as "web site".

Last.fm probably being the most famous example of a radio adjacent service using .fm
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