ICANN opens applications for new gTLDs
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: $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
  • Tanoh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    .er .db

    All two letter TLDs are exclusive to countries. So unless you make a country called Ergostan and Dbaseistan and get them internationally recognised you are out of luck. However, if you manage you don’t have to pay the fee!

  • Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    32·
    5 hours ago
    • .md
    • .tar
    • .gz
    • .iso
    • .lnk
    • .txt
    • .exe
    • .mp4
    • .mp3
    • .jpg
    • .png

    I want to watch the world burn like it did on the creation of the .zip TLD

  • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    I would again recommend that anyone doing online marketing and/or tracking be legally confined to the .COM TLD. Severe penalties for corporate abuse would include removal of all internet access. Less severe penalties might include a confiscation of double of all profits made outside of .COM during a deliberate infraction.

    There would be no cost for any TLD’s outside of .COM; all regulation and legal costs to be paid-for by .COM - users.

  • 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·
      7 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·
        4 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.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    7 hours ago

    I’d pick going back to .edu, .gov, .mil, .com, .org, .net — and actually enforcing their meanings. None of this cash grab bullshit where a company has to buy the TLD for their company name over and over.

  • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    I would take the old ones back from for profits, put them in the hands of a non-profit and keep them at a sensible price. All this land speculation is bullshit and contributes no value to domain users - its all a get rich scheme for a small number of insiders.