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Great. There's a Dutch bank called ING. I can't wait for all the phish.ing to start. IMHO all those new TLDs are just a huge mistake and a blatant money-grab.
They already got the bank.ing domain name.
> While bank.ing is managed by ING, please be aware that any other domain ending with .ing is not an ING website.
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Yes: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions
In theory this is beneficial as it helps fund the ICANN and keep it independent. But the reality is that these are effectively money printing machines, effectively out of reach for all but large corporations, which bring questionable value to the internet in general. I selfishly hope that we can establish a free TLD, or at least one which just directly funds ICANN operations instead of benefitting rich middle men.
Google has 46 tld that I found, many of them unavailable for public registration. .ads, .android, .app, .boo, .cal, .channel, .chrome, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dev, .docs, .drive, .eat, .esq, .fly, .foo, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .goog, .google, .guge, .hangout, .here, .how, .ing, .map, .meet, .meme, .mov, .new, .nexus, .page, .phd, .play, .prod, .prof, .rsvp, .search, .soy, .谷歌, .みんな, .グーグル, .youtube, .zip,
bor.ing The whole TLD is just ugly in my opinion.
are they insane? Priority for one of the .ing domains I searched for is $1,288,999.99 registration fee and renews at $38,999.99/yr.
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Domain registration is the most fascinating interaction between multiple outlooks. There's the true hacker spirit of DNS resolution as a technology. There's the lawful bureaucracy of ICANN shoe-horning the technology into a legal framework. Then there's the capitalism of registry "operators" who appear to exist almost solely to navigate ICANN. It really feels like there ought to be a better system.
domains are almost as Lindy (a concept that explains the longevity of things like ideas or technology) as circuit switched telephone numbers. We're not going to shake the concept away for a very long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number
But a domain is now a virtual signal. Most adverts are "search X" or advertising online already so there is a link. There are plenty of cool non-english but pronounceable words out there you can .com let alone cute things .so, .be, .co, .io, .ai, .gg, .dev, etc.
Nobody is actually doing anything interesting with these. It all seems to be marketing landing pages intended to direct you to the real URL.
If squatters and registrars weren't so shite, I could absolutely see a new service with a name like "share.zip" or "you.mov" taking off. call.ing seems like a perfect domain for a video chat service. Too bad these domains cost several thousands of dollars (as a starting price).
Too bad any domain with fewer than five letters has been registered by the companies selling these domains the moment the TLDs came out.
Domains aren't used by multi million dollar companies, but plenty of blogs and other independent servers using the alt-TLDs.
"Adobe Acrobat has free online tools that let you easily edit, add comments and fill and sign PDFs right from your browser. Try them out at edit.ing and signing."
They somehow missed sign.ing being properly called out :p
I’m quite appalled. Pre-order now! Wonderful new TLD! Buy! But, it will cost an extra $1m if you want to do it now. Later than that, pay less but wait longer, and risk losing it. So, pay up or get lost. Can’t afford $1m for a domain? Sorry, bozo, maybe you can have the scraps when the bullies are done eating. This whole business is massive trash. The days of owning your own domain with any kind of nice name are fadin…
Nobody is actually doing anything interesting with these. It all seems to be marketing landing pages intended to direct you to the real URL.
> Nobody is actually doing anything interesting with these. Now wait a second, that's not at all true. In my experience there are armies of people who use them to launch targeted phishing attacks at my business if they buy the goddamn thing before I do. At a certain point if you are lucky enough to have a business that's worth targeting, every new gTLD is just another fuck.ing security expense. Is phish.ing available…
I have a feeling people trust .com and .net more than they trust .zip and .mov. Without .com, the URL just looks weird to some people.
I can see why you dislike new TLDs if you're trying to protect your company, but you'll always have that problem. It's not like you're going to transfer money to the Taliban to register yourcompany.af, but criminals don't care, the money they transfer is probably stolen anyway.
One exception is the fact that there's an international bank called "ING". They've already registered bank.ing but I don't think they can come close to claiming all possible phishing attempts for their customer base.