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“Avoid Buying New Domain Extensions” Says Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- jwilk 9y agoPlease use the original title.
- discombobulate 9y agoLooks like the person who submitted the post has an axe to grind. Found this in their comment history: 'Agreed. Name/Enom support has gone to complete sh*t. They are putting all the money into marketing crap new TLDs.' I own a few new gTLD's. That's why I know about them. So I'm not unbias. What I would recommend is, do your own research! Figure out what makes a good domain. What makes sense in your particular situation. I don't think I can be fairer in my evaluation than that!
- cjsuk 9y agoThis is sensible. Also the established TLDs seem to have a larger clue stick. Look at the recent .io domain shenanigans: https://thehackerblog.com/the-io-error-taking-control-of-all-io-domains-with-a-targeted-registration/index.html https://thehackerblog.com/the-io-error-taking-control-of-all...
- discombobulate 9y agoThe market for the new gTLDs is consolidating. They're not a one-man shop, like .io was. Donuts Inc. secured a $100mm in funding, for example. The namespace is wide open. You can get cheap names which look great, are easy to say, short, & memorable. Brand names. Keyword rich. They may not be the best for some markets, given. For forward-thinking demographics, the inverse is probably true. They're not going away. There're more coming. Large companies use them.
- kijeda 9y agoThe .io domain has been around since the 1990s. It is well established.
- maxton 9y agoI don't think you can compare .io, a ccTLD, with the new gTLDs. It's apples and oranges.
- michaelmrose 9y agoCan we just have a successor to the current dns system that isn't owned and controlled by the US already?
- wavefunction 9y agoSure, just create it and convince other people to use it.
- splintercell 9y agoWhat do you think about ENS - Ethereum Naming System? Of all the attempts at making an alternate name resolution system, Ethereum's ENS seem to have the most amount of interest and investment going in.
- guillon 9y agoThy also wrote "use .ONION" domain names instead, right?