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Yes, they do, huge mistake ...but a lot of fun!
Explain why it’s a huge mistake, please.
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The .ing top-level domain
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#292Check availability of googl.ing and search.ing. They are taken. Guess by who.
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#293I spent some time figuring out how to buy:
1. You have to spend like obscene amount of money to get the domain right now. The amount decreases every day till Dec 5.
2. In Godaddy, You pay for pre-registration of the domain, when it opens on Dec 5 and assuming nobody grabbed it before, you'll have a chance at the lottery with other bidders of purchasing it.
3. Godaddy priority registration is showing wrong pricing. The Phase 1 and 2 are already over and hence showing 20$ prices. From Phase 3 the actual prices start.
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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?
Theoretically but e.g. google.com has a TTL of 5 minutes, TLD responses usually have something like a 48 hour TTL associated. Drop that cache timer then multiply by a huge factor because everyone is hitting TLD lookups for random things like "sausage" instead of ".com" and it's easy to imagine the majority of the root traffic volumes becomes bogus lookups instead of actual requests. Once it's into ".com" it's off the public infrastructure and volume becomes a problem of the current pay to operate TLD system.
Could that be done right? Sure, at which point Google would probably want to keep the 5 minute TTL instead.
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#299Great. 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.
exactly my fist thought :)
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#300Meanwhile 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
You're right, but there's some good ones still available. Like 2-chars (they're more than $60)
butt.bot anybody?
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