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.gy (Guyana) may have some life (grun.gy, lethar.gy ?)
Domain power combo: big.dk + ener.gy
> big.dk
At least I have found what I have expected on that domain.
.ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
tough to say but lots of trends didn't go away they just died down .io never went away for tech you'd think the mobile app development bubble would have popped 10 years ago but it just kept going despite not really delivering value to most people that feel that they need one 2020's .finance is still popping in the crypto space, notably many, maybe even most of those ideas do make revenue for the creator, in compariso…
.io is simply the new .net, what you get when you can't get .com but don't want to rename. Although .io and .ai are really expensive so I wouldn't be surprised if something new comes up.
in my world that was true 10 years ago, except it wasnt a cop out: nobody needed .coms but nobody knew it yet because of prevailing wisdom
over here .xyz is the new .io and nobody cares about the tld that much at all
if you’re relying on users to type in your domain name, or SEO, or some form of legitimacy with an equally as antiquated crowd, you’ve already failed and need to scrap the idea
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#83It'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?
ICANN does not pick the abbreviations. ISO does.
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#84Tuvalu (.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?
.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
> .cc (Cocos Island) was used most famously by Arduino.
IMO Arduino's use of the domain wasn't as famous as Creative Commons' use of the domain creativecommons.cc ... but Arduino is still at arduino.cc, while Creative Commons has moved to .org.
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> I legit didn't realize that .io was a TLD for a country/state. All two-letter TLDs are. Now that you know the pattern, you'll be able to identify all the other ccTLDs as well.
For some definition of country/state that includes .eu and such...
Yeah, Country Code TLDs is a bit of a misnomer, it's more "regions and territories".
Lots of islands, lots of of countries with spotty international recognition, a couple countries that no longer exist (like the Soviet Union), and a couple "regions" (EU, Antarctic)
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#86It'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?
ICANN does not pick the abbreviations. ISO does.
ISO3166-1 alpha-2 to be exact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
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A shame they don't manage that inflow of money particularly well. Instead of giving tax cuts they should treat it like Norway treats income from oil and make a sovereign wealth fund – oh well...
When you're a small incompetent corrupt country, a sovereign wealth fund is the last thing you want. Like dumping gasoline on a fire. Whereas cutting taxes - well, it may not be optimal, but it's harder to corrupt, is transparent and publicly observable, and easy to implement.
Not following the phrasing: "Whereas cutting taxes - well, it may not be optimal, but it's harder to corrupt, is transparent and publicly observable, and easy to implement."
Cutting taxes is harder to corrupt? The removal of taxes is good because the country can't properly collect taxes in the first place?
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#88I am personally a fan of using the .dev TLD. Any alternatives/ issues with it I should be aware of?
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#89I just want to point out that the huge expansion of TLDs has really affected the prices of domains in the aftermarket. This wasn't true immediately, but average users are used to them now, so if your domain ends with .tech or .plus or .cool or whatever, it doesn't have any sort of non-professional stigma it once had. And there are still plenty of good 'ol .com names still available.
You can have an AI company with any sort of domain now. No one really cares. I bet much of the .ai surge is due to domain squatters hoping for a windfall. It's not going to happen.
I have a one-word, relevant .ai domain that I'm hoping to do something with, but I'd also be open to any sort of offer as I'm short of money right now. So I posted it for sale on various sites and gotten zero interest in it.
The days of rare, in-demand domains like sales.com or something are long gone. In fact, most serious companies want a unique name to build a brand. Which is a better long-term name, intelligent.ai or logique.com?
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#90It'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?
ICANN does not pick the abbreviations. ISO does.
It's odd ISO 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 ISO just charge a flat fee for any string to resolve to an IP?