.ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

Post by loktarogar » Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 11:33 PM UTC

yieldcrv wrote: post #82

whatyesaid wrote: post #59

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.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

Post by dharmab » Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 11:41 PM UTC

actionfromafar wrote: post #90

Spray3610 wrote: post #83

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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?

Post by actionfromafar » Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 11:43 PM UTC

dharmab wrote: post #93

actionfromafar wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

ISO created the country codes in 1974, prior to the invention of DNS.

Post by Etheryte » Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 11:47 PM UTC

yieldcrv wrote: post #82

whatyesaid wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.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

Post by sdsd » Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 11:55 PM UTC

actionfromafar wrote: post #90

Spray3610 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?