Meanwhile Namecheap just launched .bot tld today, that I think is frankly, quite cool. https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma...
About $60 a year minimum not cheap
The .ing top-level domain
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#282I 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).
Layers of enshitification inception
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I think people get more value out of the unified search/url bar "just working" without having to think how to use it than they'd get out of not having to type ".com". If they want that kind of workflow they kind of already have it in the form "apple" enter -> first result. It would also mean every single word entry would have to hit the root level of this public name lookup system since the client wouldn't know until…
> It would also mean every single word entry would have to hit the root level of this public name lookup system since the client wouldn't know until after it checked.
Caching at multiple levels should work fairly well for this?
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
On what grounds? ING can sue on grounds of owning a trademark.
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Explain why it’s a huge mistake, please.
I think the idea is ambiguity between a zip file from your coworkers website and an entirely separate phishing website which downloads an entirely different zip file with a malicious payload. Anything that introduces unnecessary and previously unforseen ambiguity to the olds is just another path to filling the internet with scams
Well, we also have .com as a common extension on Windows machines?
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
Conspiracy theory here: if you go to a big player like GoDaddy they'll sell their queries and some party will see the domain you want and squat it unless you register right away. Just use the whois command in your terminal.
Networksolutions does this, godaddy doesnt.
so does namecheap.
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#287I just checked work.ing and it’s is $125k a year.. for ~10k a month, I can do so much more by renting more servers infrastructure.
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#288There’s a character in “the truth” by Terry pratchett that ostensibly swears a lot in the book - “I don’t have any -ing friends”, etc. but it turns out he’s literally saying -ing (that being the joke). And I will never not think about if I encounter a .ing domain.
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#290I’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…
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?
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