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Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by codetrotter »

personjerry wrote: post #239
nusl wrote: post #199

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…

Makes me wanna boycott that whole TLD tbh

Run a caching DNS resolver for your own devices and have it return NXDOMAIN for everything under .ing and other TLDs that you don’t like

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by doublerabbit »

nusl wrote: post #199

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…

If you could sway people to change the "scary IP DNS settings" you could crush the TLD racket overnight.

Change your DNS server to OpenDNS projects like OpenNIC. [0]

There is nothing stopping me from running my own .ing tld on my own DNS servers other than the mainstream default ISP configured to the de-facto. It's not illegal.

[0] https://www.opennic.org/

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by CydeWeys »

silisili wrote: post #227
heywire wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AOL keywords!

You joke, but that was a better system and user experience than whatever the world we have now...

Except that it wasn't, because I didn't have AOL and thus they never worked well for me like a simple domain name did.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by CydeWeys »

zokier wrote: post #92
lagniappe wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get the idea sometimes that the "concept" of a TLD is being destroyed. Whether that be intentionally or unintentionally, I get the hints that we're headed toward AOL keywords all over again.

The "concept" of tlds was already pretty much destroyed with .com boom. Even in late 90s there was basically no true organization or hierarchy on the top level, .com/.org/.net etc were all free for all and most cctlds did not establish any 2nd level domains either (uk being prominent counter-example)

The only hierarchy that really exists and makes sense is the ccTLDs, but only some of them. .de, .cn, .fr, .uk, etc., these are mostly registered by people and businesses within the actual country and used within the country as well. But there's so many other ccTLDs like .us, .io, .ai, .ly, .me, .co, etc., where they're functionally just two-letter generic TLDs, and the hierarchy doesn't work for them.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by CydeWeys »

BasilPH wrote: post #65

I looked at buying transcrib.ing. I got quoted a reasonable price of €17,99 and a less reasonable setup fee of €1.525.570,80. I'm curious about the economics: Who gets that money? And I suppose you don't pay by credit card.

It's currently in the descending price auction phase, so that initial one-time fee will go down over time (unless someone snaps it up first anyway).

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by moehm »

Const-me wrote: post #165
postalrat wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whats the problem? Are TLDs running out?

I believe the main problem is lack of competition. When a customer registers geographical domains, or old school domains like com / net, they can migrate to any other registrar they wish. This option guarantees reasonable prices for customers, even in the very long run. When a customer registers their domain under TLDs like hot / deals / express they can’t move away unless they’re fine losing their domain name as the…

You are confusing registry and registrar.

Google Registry (https://get.ing) to .ing is what Verisign is to .com, and you can both register them on GoDaddy and transfer them to Gandi.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by Meph504 »

Honestly at this point, because there are SO many tlds do people even care at this point.

It's just a money grab, and one that is designed to strong arm brands into protecting themselves by buying up all this pointless tlds to avoid brand delusion.

At this point, it seems its likely cheaper to just buy the .com, and let lawyers handle anyone else instead of buying endless pointless tlds, even more so now they are trying this auction/bidding war crap.

How about we put a freeze on all TLDs. and we create rules that require they all go back to a standard fee structure, no auctions, no reserving, etc..

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