ICANN opens applications for new gTLDs
www.theregister.com
: $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts

Do you have ideas for TLDs? Here’s some of mine, not sure if any of these exist already:

  • .plus
  • .now
  • .ent (short for enterprise)
  • .one
  • .er (for domain hacks, don’t get any ideas)
  • .db
  • .source
  • BoofStroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    67·
    9 hours ago

    I believe more Tlds is generally stupid. But instead of all the protect the children bullshit, I’d be good with a .kids tld that requires certification to own. Then you can just whitelist that for your precious crotch goblins and leave the rest of us alone.

    • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
      33·
      8 hours ago

      That’s a good suggestion, but unfortunately age verification is not about protecting the kids, it’s about removing anonymity from online platforms and making sure that we can’t exercise our right to speech online without risking government harassment.

      Oh yeah and the advertisers don’t want to pay to advertise to bots.

      • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        5 hours ago

        The idea would be to provide a “protect the kids” alternative that doesn’t require global surveillance and privacy violations, so the next time they try to justify another rights violation to “protect the kids” they can be pointed to the sane alternative, and (hopefully) they’ll run out of excuses.

        I mean, one would wish it’ll play out like that, though I have some doubts. Somehow excuses seem to be always found.