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Post by imp0cat »

personjerry wrote: post #239
nusl wrote: post #199

I’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…

Makes me wanna boycott that whole TLD tbh

You either boycott, or you can be the k.ing! :D

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Post by blovescoffee »

janalsncm wrote: post #268
andersrs wrote: post #128

Earlier 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.

Unlike most conspiracy “theories” which are unfalsifiable, this should be pretty easy to prove or disprove. Just search for some random plausibly appealing domains and check to see if they’re registered 24-72 hours later. It’s not a particularly difficult or clever test to run, so I’m definitely not the first person to come up with it. It’s the kind of thing that’s big news if true but a non-story if false. The fact…

Fwiw I literally did this and within a few days the domain was registered before I could

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Post by erhaetherth »

Ayesh wrote: post #280
giarc wrote: post #168

Launched today but all those companies already have registered the domains? So the public didn't get fair access to draw.ing??

I'd imagine Google reached out to Canva, ING bank, Adobe, etc and offered those domains for free, so it looks "adopted" by the industry leaders.

Free? Why give them for free when they could make $$$.

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Post by erhaetherth »

bakugo wrote: post #55
izolate wrote: post #38

Nobody is actually doing anything interesting with these. It all seems to be marketing landing pages intended to direct you to the real URL.

Turns out companies don't want to abandon whatever perfectly good domain they've already been using for decades just so they can have a funny TLD, who would've thought. Only new brands can really benefit from it.

You mean the new brands/companies that don't already have billions of dollars in revenue and can't afford to buy them? Cool, cool.

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Post by Ferret7446 »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #156

...if we're going to keep doing this, why even have top level domains anymore? How do they improve UX? Writing "draw.com" makes it clear you're referring to a (commercial) website. But "draw.ing"? Just drop the stupid dot: "drawing".

ICANN cannot administer every single domain in existence, so they delegate that to other entities. That delegation is segmented by TLD.

Thus, TLDs indicate on who is responsible for administering the domain, and thus who to contact if something has gone wrong (e.g., if law enforcement wants to commandeer a domain). (At least in theory, I'm sure there are ambiguities in practice).

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Post by rekoil »

jeroenhd wrote: post #228
s3p wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't they sell .zip TLDs now too?

I don't get it, and I'm sure some people fall for the scams, but .com has been a dangerous file format since before the internet became common and that hasn't been much of a problem either. My guess is that it'll only be a matter of time before .png and .jpg will be TLDs.

If someone is allowed to make .xlsm a TLD I'm 100% quitting the internet.

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Post by expertentipp »

pests wrote: post #80
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where does this land legally now? Could Microsoft go to ICANN and demand you hand it over for the registration fee or is it first come first serve?

Did everyone forget about the Mike Rowe Soft ordeal? 17 year old Mike Rowe started his own web company and named it MikeRoweSoft.com (on purpose, he knew he was making a pun.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft

> Microsoft declined the offer and sent a cease and desist letter spanning 25 pages

This sentence alone increases my adrenaline level. The brainless arrogance of a pack of overpaid lawyers.

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