.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood • Hacker News Board

Re: .garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 1:42 AM UTC

drdexebtjl wrote: post #21

strictnein wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For businesses, it's not a valid reason to not block .garden simply because a gardening site exists. If a site is important enough, exceptions to the blanket rule can be applied. In general though, if you want Fortune 500s to utilize your service/company, don't utilize a novelty TLD.

Blanket ban rules are extremely lazy and unacceptable in 2026, especially for Fortune 500s. It’s extremely cheap to use a scoring system instead.

You say this as if the people implementing TLD blocks even understand what the term scoring system means

Re: .garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

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Post by aaron695 » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 3:17 AM UTC

fabstei wrote: post #4

A concrete counterexample: plantura.garden is a large, reputable German-language gardening magazine / brand, and probably exactly the kind of legitimate site one would expect on .garden. So while the abuse numbers may well justify treating newly registered / low-reputation .garden domains with suspicion, blanket-blocking the entire TLD seems like it would create real collateral damage.

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Re: .garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

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Post by monster_truck » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 4:03 AM UTC

drdexebtjl wrote: post #21

strictnein wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For businesses, it's not a valid reason to not block .garden simply because a gardening site exists. If a site is important enough, exceptions to the blanket rule can be applied. In general though, if you want Fortune 500s to utilize your service/company, don't utilize a novelty TLD.

Blanket ban rules are extremely lazy and unacceptable in 2026, especially for Fortune 500s. It’s extremely cheap to use a scoring system instead.

They really aren't when you are operating at ISP scale. Especially when there are 20+ years of evidence of said scoring systems being abused until they calcified into the mess that is modern email hosting