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Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by jianglai »

tpmx wrote: post #34
fragmede wrote: post #12

As mentioned on the linked page, http://docs.new , http://sheets.new , and http://slides.new exist as shortcuts to get to a new google doc, but it doesn't play well with Chrome's address bar - using them makes getting to existing docs and sheets take an extra step. Not the worst, but still, kind of annoying.

If you have a both a personal gmail account and a for-work "google for business" account - the shortcut will take you to whatever account you signed into first . If you attempt to switch to a different account after accessing https://docs.new/ , that will trigger an "ask for permission to access document" dialog. Not awesome. (AFAIK, the only way to fix this is to sign out and then log back in, in the "correct" order…

You can try docs.new/1 and docs.new/2.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by aiddun »

ChrisGranger wrote: post #37
sdan wrote: post #31

Been using https://docs.new for the past 2-3 months. It's absolutely game-changing as I'm writing a bunch of stories and need to iterate fast and recompile my thoughts just by typing in 8 characters.

The singular version works, too. https://doc.new

As does https://document.new

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by jiveturkey »

sdan wrote: post #31

Been using https://docs.new for the past 2-3 months. It's absolutely game-changing as I'm writing a bunch of stories and need to iterate fast and recompile my thoughts just by typing in 8 characters.

huh. the sunrise period has only been 2 weeks so far. how did this exist for 2-3 months? that's unfair.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by wheelerwj »

reaperducer wrote: post #20
Cogito wrote: post #10

So the stated use case is for 'performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it.' So it's expecting users to go to a different website to perform one specific action, and then return to the original website? If I'm on github.com, click the new repo button, and get redirected to 'repo.new' I'm assuming the website has been hacked. If I want t…

I just have no idea why anyone would use a whole .new domain to achieve the stated purpose! Domain squatting is so last decade. The 20's are going to be all about corporate TLD squatting.

100%

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by tpmx »

jianglai wrote: post #51
tpmx wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have a both a personal gmail account and a for-work "google for business" account - the shortcut will take you to whatever account you signed into first . If you attempt to switch to a different account after accessing https://docs.new/ , that will trigger an "ask for permission to access document" dialog. Not awesome. (AFAIK, the only way to fix this is to sign out and then log back in, in the "correct" order…

You can try docs.new/1 and docs.new/2.

Nice!

I do understand why you didn't advertise that on the web site.

This problem is a common theme amongst all of the Google properties. (I run into it so much in the GCP console, too.) I would really like an explicit option to select the "default" or "primary" account, in that top-right user dropdown.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by profmonocle »

appleshore wrote: post #30

The only super useful version of this idea is a privacy law that requires services that collect data to offer a “facebook.delete” link to temporarily and permanently remove personal data.

I'm not keen on legally mandating the use of a particular domain extension, unless that extension is managed by a non-profit. Some of the newly-added TLDs have exorbitant annual fees, and if businesses were legally required to use them they could charge whatever they pleased.

Plus, you'd have a collision problem. What if one company has foobar.com and another has foobar.net, and they both collect data? (Imagine they're in completely different industries and the term itself is fairly generic, so there's no possibility of a trademark dispute.) They can't both get the ".delete" version of their second-level label.

(I realize I'm probably overthinking this.)

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by journalctl »

kristiandupont wrote: post #32

I use a .io domain and I get why .com isn't sufficient, but I really fail to see the value that this, along with most of the other cute new tld's, bring to the world. More than anything, I fear that it will teach my parents that domains can look like anything, so that link in the email is probably fine.

You could always be sent to a sketchy .com domain too. You can still register googlemailsender.com and scam unsuspecting people; that hasn’t changed.

Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

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Post by profmonocle »

waiseristy wrote: post #35
65934 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

checked link.new which is owned by bitly, it goes to bitly sign up page instead of link shortener. This is bad

That is an exception in the reqs "An exception is provided for services that require a user to be logged in, navigation to a .new domain may bring a logged-out user to a sign up or sign in page"

bit.ly does not require you to be logged in to create a new short link, so they don't seem to be in compliance.
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