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Thanks to Brexit, I lost my .eu domains. This really pissed me off. Maybe it's a good thing we are all afraid to visit any other tld other than dotCom.
Regardless, it's usually politically safest to put your domains under your own country's ccTLD. That way, you're exposed to one fewer country's dumb politics.
It seems like it just matches a list of precomputed entries, but does no actual operation of the user input.
Be wary of vanity TLDs and even some country codes, they may be available but once the renewal rolls around and you've invested time and effort into establishing a presence there, you may be in for a price shock.
Someone just dropped their registration for that today!?
Namecheap...
Hurry...
Login, come on...
TOTP, uagh...
Come on, come on... register, register...
...
$39,000.00 !??!
"Premium" name?!
What is this garbage?
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It's always struck me as odd that TLDs are not just, well, freely configurable? Domains have always been subject to so much artificial scarcity for seemingly no reason. Why can't a DNS resolver handle .whatever?
It can, you just need to pay $210,000 to buy that TLD.
Thanks to Brexit, I lost my .eu domains. This really pissed me off. Maybe it's a good thing we are all afraid to visit any other tld other than dotCom.
You could've found an EU person to hold the domains for you btw. Regardless, it's usually politically safest to put your domains under your own country's ccTLD. That way, you're exposed to one fewer country's dumb politics.
That would be .co.uk, so, jail time for hosting memes.
I went with https://meltd.ooo/wn for my little NFT project
I once snagged a 4 letter .net address that was the last 3 letters of my first name with the first initial of my last name as the last character.
I thought I was so clever. I had the shortest email address you could ever imagine and it was basically just my first name and last initial. Amazing!
Nobody got it. It was confusing. I got blank stares and confused looks. People basically refused to email me at my new address.
Sometimes long is better, and sometimes unique and easy to spell is better, too.
Examples like Pinterest or Expedia are good demonstrators. They are easy to spell when you hear the word, and they were unique words that at the time were obviously going be available. Sure, Expedia is a very old domain, but if the company didn’t exist today I’d almost guarantee you a new company looking to buy the domain would be able to find it in 2026.
Be wary of vanity TLDs and even some country codes, they may be available but once the renewal rolls around and you've invested time and effort into establishing a presence there, you may be in for a price shock.
"cod.ing" ... available!? Someone just dropped their registration for that today!? Namecheap... Hurry... Login, come on... TOTP, uagh... Come on, come on... register, register... ... $39,000.00 !??! "Premium" name?! What is this garbage?
Registries realized they can capture the value from premium domains rather than letting domain speculators profit.
Thanks to Brexit, I lost my .eu domains. This really pissed me off. Maybe it's a good thing we are all afraid to visit any other tld other than dotCom.
You could've found an EU person to hold the domains for you btw. Regardless, it's usually politically safest to put your domains under your own country's ccTLD. That way, you're exposed to one fewer country's dumb politics.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"cod.ing" ... available!? Someone just dropped their registration for that today!? Namecheap... Hurry... Login, come on... TOTP, uagh... Come on, come on... register, register... ... $39,000.00 !??! "Premium" name?! What is this garbage?
>What is this garbage? Registries realized they can capture the value from premium domains rather than letting domain speculators profit.