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Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by marcus_holmes »

pdntspa wrote: post #172
supermatt wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reallyfuckingcool.net or .org available, same for getsurfing, learnsurfing and justhangingout. With all these domains there’s no real point unless you are getting a dictionary word or a specific name, imho.

Which just outlines how it is a money-grab for existing property owners. Yet another stupid vanity domain you're forced to add to your portfolio!

I wonder if we're at the point that the costs of registering a new TLD are immediately recouped from the set of large businesses that must register their name in every TLD?

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by simondotau »

heipei wrote: post #81
Sander_Marechal wrote: post #2

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.

Ugh, when I saw the HN headline about this TLD I thought it belonged to ING Group, just like .barclays and .chase belong to their corporate owners. Just shows how suited this TLD is for phishing...

If I were the lawyers at ING, I would be sending Google it cease-and-desist with regards to selling any domains with banking related terms. I actually think they would have a reasonably strong claim.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by judge2020 »

rafark wrote: post #219
themagician wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it even matter anymore? Domains have been replaced with apps and search anyway. Outside of maybe the top 100 domains, how many people are actually typing out a domain?

I wonder if there’s a better alternative to current domain formats? Like, wouldnt it be great if you could just use your organization name without an extension? Like just google or apple or whatever. Instead of google.com or apple.com You can’t register tlds with those names anyway (a random person can’t register google.xyz) so why bother with extensions? Maybe not get rid of the altogether but as an alternative?

It's possible to register at the root, but ICANN has disallowed it for gTLDs (countries see ccTLDs as TLDs they "own" so ICANN isn't interested in trying to impose too many rules on them - http://ai. )

And companies have definitely purchased their own TLD for use cases that don't violate ICANN. For example:

https://blog.youtube

https://applecard.apple

https://pki.goog/

https://goo.gle

and of course https://registry.google / https://blog.google which was the domain submissed.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by judge2020 »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #243

I thought Google sold off their domain business. Is this just an article from Google or is this them going in where the money might be?

They sold Google Domains, which was a domain Registrar. They still own and control their Domain Registry, Charleston Road Registry, Inc. which manages the gTLDs like .ing and .dev.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by [deleted] »

doh wrote: post #77
ralmidani wrote: post #73

I checked for cod.ing and they said it was available. I got my hopes up and went to Godaddy. It costs over $38,000. I guess in some ways that’s good because the purchaser would more likely be someone who wants to launch a legit business or project rather than a squatter. But as others have pointed out, this whole thing is a blatant money grab.

Well, fuck.ing costs only $12,999.99/yr.

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Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by gtirloni »

simondotau wrote: post #242
heipei wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ugh, when I saw the HN headline about this TLD I thought it belonged to ING Group, just like .barclays and .chase belong to their corporate owners. Just shows how suited this TLD is for phishing...

If I were the lawyers at ING, I would be sending Google it cease-and-desist with regards to selling any domains with banking related terms. I actually think they would have a reasonably strong claim.

And grammar teachers would sue ING?

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by sgjohnson »

doh wrote: post #77
ralmidani wrote: post #73

I checked for cod.ing and they said it was available. I got my hopes up and went to Godaddy. It costs over $38,000. I guess in some ways that’s good because the purchaser would more likely be someone who wants to launch a legit business or project rather than a squatter. But as others have pointed out, this whole thing is a blatant money grab.

Well, fuck.ing costs only $12,999.99/yr.

For phase 9.

Getting it now costs $1.1m/y.

A complete non-brainer for $13k. If you could get it for $13k, you'd already be far too late. I don't see how it's not at least a high 6 figure flip.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by sgjohnson »

ralmidani wrote: post #73

I checked for cod.ing and they said it was available. I got my hopes up and went to Godaddy. It costs over $38,000. I guess in some ways that’s good because the purchaser would more likely be someone who wants to launch a legit business or project rather than a squatter. But as others have pointed out, this whole thing is a blatant money grab.

> this whole thing is a blatant money grab.

Well, Google has to diversify away from being a glorified ad agency. And they are becoming so detached from the reality that more and more people are starting to see them as complete scumbags.

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