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What about http, ://, www and other TLDs like .co.nz or .ac.uk? All of these were pretty meaningless to initiates of the internet. In this new age of ".pizza" a

What about http, ://, www and other TLDs like .co.nz or .ac.uk? All of these were pretty meaningless to initiates of the internet. In this new age of ".pizza" and suchlike, ".onion" doesn't seem much different or weird tbh. (To be clear: I don't think these new tlds are especially good either, but it's the world we live in now.)

macintux 6y ago
To me, .onion reminds me too much of The Onion.
- CarbyAu 6y ago
  Exactly what I thought the title of the article meant. I thought it was going to be some random "AI" project that could rewrite your prose in The Onion humour ala: https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036 https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
- gigama 6y ago
  The Onion really needs an .onion site.
  - johntash 6y ago
    They really should, the.onion would almost be perfect.
    - tialaramex 6y ago
      Names under the .onion TLD are random (they're derived from a public key, and you should generate your key pair randomly or else your private key isn't private). You can of course just keep picking random names until you get one that you like, but "the" isn't a possibility even if you kept trying forever.
- belorn 6y ago
  A common theme with country code tld's is that you get one country using someone else tld if and when there is a match in the local language and the two letters. For example, Sweden has a lot of swedish websites under the .nu (island state of Niue), to the point where the Swedish registrar actually bought and took over the operation of the tld. "nu" is the word for "now" in swedish. For me who don't live in the states and have very little exposure of that satirical newspaper, .onion brings no connection to it. If I did not know about The Tor Project I would had guess it was a cooking related domain name. I would also have guessed that google was a company trying to sell glasses.

macintux 6y ago

To me, .onion reminds me too much of The Onion.

CarbyAu 6y ago
Exactly what I thought the title of the article meant. I thought it was going to be some random "AI" project that could rewrite your prose in The Onion humour ala: https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036 https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
gigama 6y ago
The Onion really needs an .onion site.
- johntash 6y ago
  They really should, the.onion would almost be perfect.
  - tialaramex 6y ago
    Names under the .onion TLD are random (they're derived from a public key, and you should generate your key pair randomly or else your private key isn't private). You can of course just keep picking random names until you get one that you like, but "the" isn't a possibility even if you kept trying forever.
belorn 6y ago
A common theme with country code tld's is that you get one country using someone else tld if and when there is a match in the local language and the two letters. For example, Sweden has a lot of swedish websites under the .nu (island state of Niue), to the point where the Swedish registrar actually bought and took over the operation of the tld. "nu" is the word for "now" in swedish. For me who don't live in the states and have very little exposure of that satirical newspaper, .onion brings no connection to it. If I did not know about The Tor Project I would had guess it was a cooking related domain name. I would also have guessed that google was a company trying to sell glasses.