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Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by offbyone » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

tobilocker wrote: post #47

gruez wrote: post #34

Before anyone gets any ideas: >The use of .gay for anti-LGBTQ content or to malign or harm LGBTQ individuals or groups is strictly prohibited and can result in immediate server-hold. Prohibited behavior includes harassment, threats, and hate speech. For the complete policy, see: https://toplevel.design/policy

I did not expect that people here would have needed that reminder to not come up with "funny" ideas

I did. And one needs only look at the sibling comment to yours to see early warning signs.

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by mytailorisrich » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

globular-toast wrote: post #48

gruez wrote: post #34

Before anyone gets any ideas: >The use of .gay for anti-LGBTQ content or to malign or harm LGBTQ individuals or groups is strictly prohibited and can result in immediate server-hold. Prohibited behavior includes harassment, threats, and hate speech. For the complete policy, see: https://toplevel.design/policy

Who makes these rules? Who decides what is "anti-LGBTQ"? Will they keep adding on more letters to LGBTQ as they become available?

These days this is gauged by the level of social media outrage, this is what brings 'problems' to the attention of decision-makers, and I suspect that this rule will mostly be used as a response to that unless the domain name itself is obviously disparaging.

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by CydeWeys » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

globular-toast wrote: post #48

gruez wrote: post #34

Before anyone gets any ideas: >The use of .gay for anti-LGBTQ content or to malign or harm LGBTQ individuals or groups is strictly prohibited and can result in immediate server-hold. Prohibited behavior includes harassment, threats, and hate speech. For the complete policy, see: https://toplevel.design/policy

Who makes these rules? Who decides what is "anti-LGBTQ"? Will they keep adding on more letters to LGBTQ as they become available?

The registry operator does: https://toplevel.design/

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by danellis » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

cjsaltlake wrote: post #42

rimliu wrote: post #33

How about .straight and .bisexual?

The community for straight people is too disparate to be meaningful. .bi is interesting though..

Two-letter codes are generally countries. In this case, Burundi.

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by celticninja » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

arkitaip wrote: post #23

tuxxy wrote: post #10

I preordered https://areyou.gay a while ago. I don't know what to put on it, but I would like to host a FAQ or something for people who are questioning their sexuality and make it v wholesome.

I think you should transfer the domain to a gay rights org or similar because this type of domain squatting is obnoxious. I mean, you didn't even have a plan for the domain, just registered it for the novelty.

Why can't anyone register any domain? Obnoxious is a very strong term.

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by CydeWeys » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

mindfreeze wrote: post #2

Official Website: https://www.ohhey.gay

You should add some context that this is the official promotional site for the TLD by the registry operator.

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by WillYouFinish » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 2:14 PM UTC

tuxxy wrote: post #10

I preordered https://areyou.gay a while ago. I don't know what to put on it, but I would like to host a FAQ or something for people who are questioning their sexuality and make it v wholesome.

Make a subdomain "why" and put up the same content as on http://youare.gay/

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by CydeWeys » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 2:14 PM UTC

Wow there's a lot of childish homophobia coming out in the comments here. I (naively?) thought that HN would be better than that for some reason?

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by tobilocker » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 2:14 PM UTC

hitpointdrew wrote: post #39

tobilocker wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are into (falsely) blaming people for their sexuality, that would be a great idea...

How is stating a fact "blaming"?

The commonly in informal speech used phrases "that's so gay" or "that person is gay" together with the recommendation of using it as subdomain led me to the clue that the intended use case is to "joke about" or "blame" people more than using it of a way to broadcast someones sexuality to the public

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by offbyone » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 2:14 PM UTC

IanDrake wrote: post #50

rimliu wrote: post #33

How about .straight and .bisexual?

Why not, we should all be able to announce our sexual preferences through our email address. But why stop there? Might as well make things clear with sub-domains. Bob@white.muslim.palistinian.overfourty.bald.fat.gay

Can you imagine how many john@white.christian.american.overforty.fat.straight email addresses there'd be?