Several registrars are already selling general availability pre-orders. Does anyone know how this works? I have a feeling that, when the general availability period begins, if multiple people pre-ordered the same one, all but one of them are going to get screwed. Do they at least refund you?
The .ing top-level domain
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#62It is just pre-order, expensive and worth nothing in the end as the good ones will get more bids.
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#63I've reached generic TLD fatigue. There's a new one each week. I regularly buy domains with OVH since they have a wide array of TLDs at a good price[0]. Over the years I let many of them expire because either 1) I let my dreams die, or 2) I couldn't afford to renew it. Mostly it's because I let my dreams die, not financial shortcomings though. [0] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/domains/tld/
Domain squatting is not what it used to be... unless it's max 5 characters in total, simply let it go.
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#64bor.ing
The whole TLD is just ugly in my opinion.
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#65I looked at buying transcrib.ing. I got quoted a reasonable price of €17,99 and a less reasonable setup fee of €1.525.570,80. I'm curious about the economics: Who gets that money? And I suppose you don't pay by credit card.
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#66Google Registry? Thought they were outta that after the fiasco and outrage with the sale to Squarespace?
...guess shouldn't be surprised Google managed to confuse everyone with multiple seemingly related services. Doh
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#67Earlier 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?
Yes, they can demand you hand it over and you will hand it over.
it's not that simple lol. there's a whole UDRP process they need to jump through.
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#68The DNS is serious internet infrastructure, not your play toy. The practice of selling TLDs to every two bit dotcom was a mistake and needs to end.
Domain registration is the most fascinating interaction between multiple outlooks. There's the true hacker spirit of DNS resolution as a technology. There's the lawful bureaucracy of ICANN shoe-horning the technology into a legal framework. Then there's the capitalism of registry "operators" who appear to exist almost solely to navigate ICANN. It really feels like there ought to be a better system.
domains are almost as Lindy (a concept that explains the longevity of things like ideas or technology) as circuit switched telephone numbers. We're not going to shake the concept away for a very long time.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
They already got the bank.ing domain name.
but do they have fuckof\f.ing for submitting complaints? Edit: HN doesn't accept FO as one word, it replaces the last `f` with `i`. Try it yourself.
Is this just a trick to see how many people you can get to type 'fuckoff'? :-)
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#70Great. There's a Dutch bank called ING. I can't wait for all the phish.ing to start. IMHO all those new TLDs are just a huge mistake and a blatant money-grab.
>> IMHO all those new TLDs are just a huge mistake and a blatant money-grab. Especially with this one. There is no room for competition since each verb can only be used once with the ing suffix. Well, competition for who is willing to pay the most, but from the consumer side there can only be one URL.
i mean, if you can't get fuck.ing/cool, you can go with reallyfuck.ing/cool or getsurf.ing gosurf.ing learnsurf.ing or justhang.ing/out etc
I think I'm at my limit of dumb domain names for no reason though, so I'll pass on this round.