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
  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    10 hours ago

    .crom

    Crom.crom

    … It offers nothing.

    Also .slash, because chaos must reign.

    Ohh!

    How about .— for all the LLMs to create their own deepweb on?

    We can just call the realworld version of the Blackwall the EmWall, fittingly more stupid and annoyingly named than anything in actual cyberpunk, as seems to be the writing style for our timeline.

  • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    14 hours ago

    .antifa and .profa so we don’t have to guess where the company/project/person/etc. stands.

    • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
      42·
      12 hours ago

      Unless the domain registry is going to research each and every applicant, you’ll still have to guess. I own a .uk domain despite never having visited Ukraine United Kingdom.

      Edit: not sure why I was confused about the .UK TLD, fixed.

        • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Care to explain? Anyone can buy any domain, and host anything they want on it. Domains don’t guarantee anything.

          • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            3 hours ago

            It wasn’t serious. Just like .dot or .slop it’s more a joke than a serious suggestion. You wouldn’t seriously expect “AI” companies to dutifully buy .slop domains for their nonsense. Just like I wouldn’t seriously expect right wing parties, companies that support them or are “apolitical” or “undecided” to buy .profa domains.
            But it would be lovely of them.

        • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          12 hours ago

          I have no idea why I got that stuck in my head wrong. Still, my point stands, anyone can buy any domain at any time. Ownership of a domain implies nothing.

  • Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    72·
    21 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

  • BoofStroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1002·
    1 day 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
      58·
      24 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
        12·
        21 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.

        • Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          16 hours ago

          They’ll just start using the other classic excuse of “preventing terrorism” instead in the case that “protect the children” no longer works.

          If you’re against mass surveillance, you must be pro-terrorism, right?

  • Tanoh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    19 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!

      • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Damn, if colonies were still a thing, Italy would be the empire of domain hacks, with .it, .er and .so

        Edit: before you think I’m pro-colonization, my post was just a historically accurate joke