Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?
Notion for some reason still use Somalia (.so)
.ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
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#72Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?
.tk was all the rage when I was younger, early 2000s something. You got a top level domain for free! Of course, they would just serve your webpage through a frameset with ads surrounding it unless you paid. But it rocked being able to say "visit my webpage matsemann.tk" instead of home.no.net/users/~matsemann/ (~ on Norwegian keyboard needs an alt+gr combo plus pressing space to show, and back in the days having to e…
There is an audio interview, linked on HN, in one of the comments I can’t find, about the crazy story of tk domains involving gun running and drug smuggling, freedom getting sued by Facebook for tk abuse and so on. It was very interesting to hear dotcom bust millionaire stories from a user here.
Have this instead “How a Tiny Pacific Island Became the Global Hub of Cybercrime”
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
OMG this really brings back some memories. I totally forgot about that .tk iframe thing. Wasn't it in the late 90s?
Was still a thing in the late 2000s, at least in my (european) internet bubble at the time. This was also one of the only ways for a broke middle schooler without a credit card to get a cool "real" domain. Combine it with dyndns, self-host some ancient-but-free bulletin-board software (Woltlab Burning Board may ring a bell for the European / German audience) after learning about this "Apache2" and "mod_php" thing and…
Always used phpbb but when I discovered a nulled version of WBB in my script kddie days, heck was it a good time.
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#74I've said it before [0-4], I'll say it again -- mind your TLD. They have about as much control and influence over your traffic as a VPN, except even your users are at their mercy. Do not choose a TLD based on trends. [0]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1686148772831846402 "TLDs are almost as bad as VPNs in terms of the magnitude of trust you need to commit to another entity for your online survival. Always do thor…
What would you consider to be a “safe” TLD? I imagine most ccTLDs are off the table, and even a lot of the gTLDs are shady, so .com/.org/.net?
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#75typo in headline "windfallf" @dang
fixedf. thanks!
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#76A windfallf.
A windfall for a leeward (wind) island
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#77Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?
.cat (Catalunya) is frequently used by fans of the animal Cat, but it's for websites that "have a significant amount of contents in Catalan" - https://domini.cat/en/faqs/ .nu (Niue) was originally owned by a Niue non-profit in Massachusetts, US, but was later transferred into Swedish ownership as "nu" means "now" in Swedish and lots of websites in Sweden were using it.
Same thing in The Netherlands, it has the same meaning. There was a popular travel blog service named waarbenjij.nu, (meaning whereareyou now)
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.cc (Cocos Island) was used most famously by Arduino. .cx (Christmas Island) domains were relatively common some 20 years ago, iirc because of some dynamic DNS provider. And of course .io is the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean territories
.cx was probably most famous for goatse.cx. (For anyone who doesn't know -- don't go there. At least not while you're in public.)
Well, didn't want to mention that one. But I found the dynamic DNS service that I was thinking of; it was "ath.cx". These days it is operated by the same company that operates dyndns.org and homeip.net. That company is, wait for it...
Oracle.
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.tk was all the rage when I was younger, early 2000s something. You got a top level domain for free! Of course, they would just serve your webpage through a frameset with ads surrounding it unless you paid. But it rocked being able to say "visit my webpage matsemann.tk" instead of home.no.net/users/~matsemann/ (~ on Norwegian keyboard needs an alt+gr combo plus pressing space to show, and back in the days having to e…
Except for https://tcl.tk/ of course!
Your direct link reminds me that many years ago, .tk was shadowbanned on reddit; you could see your post containing a .tk link, but no one else would. It might still be that way.
I understand the (arguable) necessity and the prolific scams, but it seemed cruel to broke teenagers.
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#80It's odd ICANN has such a control to effect an countries income just by choosing a good abbreviation. I doubt the creators of the DNS system had any idea that domains would arbitrarily give some countries an extra form of income, profiting from people who could care less about the country it was created for. Why didn't ICANN just charge a flat fee for any string to resolve to an IP?