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Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

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Post by whycome »

bonzini wrote: post #20
whycome wrote: post #18

Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?

.cc (Cocos Island) was used most famously by Arduino. .cx (Christmas Island) domains were relatively common some 20 years ago, iirc because of some dynamic DNS provider. And of course .io is the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean territories

I fully suspect .CX to see a resurgence as the short form for "customer experience" is really expanding quickly.

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Post by rzzzt »

tomduncalf wrote: post #21
stuartd wrote: post #4

My cue to mention http://ai which used to link to the registrar

How does this work? Are there other domains like this? I've never seen it before!

I'm fairly certain "www.canon" resolved to Canon's website at some point (where "some point" is the introduction of domain, 2015), and was not just a hypothetical address:

- https://icannwiki.org/.canon

- https://domainnamewire.com/2010/03/17/canon-why-would-you-wa...

Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

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Post by joshmanders »

tomduncalf wrote: post #21
stuartd wrote: post #4

My cue to mention http://ai which used to link to the registrar

How does this work? Are there other domains like this? I've never seen it before!

A TLD is just a namespace. Think of it like subdomains such as blog.yoursite.com

com is a top level domain, yoursite.com is a domain, and blog.yoursite.com is a subdomain. All of these can have their own DNS records that resolve to things. Typically they don't unless it redirects to something like nic.tld or something.

Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

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Post by whycome »

pavlov wrote: post #26
whycome wrote: post #18

Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?

.co (Colombia) is a fairly popular alternative to .com. .fi (Finland) was used by crypto/web3 companies during the 2021-22 hype cycle because it associates with finance (as in DeFi = decentralized finance). .is (Iceland) and .at (Austria) are English words and can be used for cleverish domains that form sentences in URLs, as in: this.is/amazing

.gy (Guyana) may have some life (grun.gy, lethar.gy ?)

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Post by riedel »

matsemann wrote: post #28
whycome wrote: post #18

Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?

.tk was all the rage when I was younger, early 2000s something. You got a top level domain for free! Of course, they would just serve your webpage through a frameset with ads surrounding it unless you paid. But it rocked being able to say "visit my webpage matsemann.tk" instead of home.no.net/users/~matsemann/ (~ on Norwegian keyboard needs an alt+gr combo plus pressing space to show, and back in the days having to e…

OMG this really brings back some memories. I totally forgot about that .tk iframe thing. Wasn't it in the late 90s?

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Post by p4bl0 »

whycome wrote: post #18

Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?

In the same vein as .tv there is the .fm (Federated States of Micronesia) for radio stations.

Also, .ws (Western Samoa), which was sold as "web site".

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Post by AdamH12113 »

bonzini wrote: post #20
whycome wrote: post #18

Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?

.cc (Cocos Island) was used most famously by Arduino. .cx (Christmas Island) domains were relatively common some 20 years ago, iirc because of some dynamic DNS provider. And of course .io is the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean territories

.cx was probably most famous for goatse.cx.

(For anyone who doesn't know -- don't go there. At least not while you're in public.)

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Post by gary_0 »

mholt wrote: post #15

I've said it before [0-4], I'll say it again -- mind your TLD. They have about as much control and influence over your traffic as a VPN, except even your users are at their mercy. Do not choose a TLD based on trends. [0]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1686148772831846402 "TLDs are almost as bad as VPNs in terms of the magnitude of trust you need to commit to another entity for your online survival. Always do thor…

I would have said to just use dot-org once upon at time, but then this happened: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-2020-...

In the meantime, at least thepiratebay.org is still up... and now that I think of it, it's a good canary for the integrity of dot-org.

Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

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Post by p4bl0 »

matsemann wrote: post #28
whycome wrote: post #18

Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?

.tk was all the rage when I was younger, early 2000s something. You got a top level domain for free! Of course, they would just serve your webpage through a frameset with ads surrounding it unless you paid. But it rocked being able to say "visit my webpage matsemann.tk" instead of home.no.net/users/~matsemann/ (~ on Norwegian keyboard needs an alt+gr combo plus pressing space to show, and back in the days having to e…

Yes, but since it has been operated by freenom, along with .ml, .ga, .gk, and .cf it's a real disaster.
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