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.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public
- mindfreeze 6y agoOfficial Website: https://www.ohhey.gay https://www.ohhey.gay
- CydeWeys 6y agoYou should add some context that this is the official promotional site for the TLD by the registry operator.
- mp3il 6y agoSomeone should buy Haaaa.gay and just embed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaG5SAw1n0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaG5SAw1n0c
- ffpip 6y agohttps://read.if-you-are.gay https://read.if-you-are.gay
- tobilocker 6y agoWell that'd be so funny... NOT!
- mmm_grayons 6y agoSadly, thatsso.gay is akready taken. That would have been a really funny domain to have.
- glckr 6y agoWhy?
- mmm_grayons 6y agoBecause it's generally recognized that calling something gay is funny and a way to insult it, at least here in America. Is that not the case in other places? I've heard at least some of it in south and central america, though it tends to be taken more personally there than in
- hehetrthrthrjn 6y agoIf your name is Gay, iam.gay would be very cool. MAybe I'll change my name by deed poll.
- ffpip 6y agoI want to see whether Google will register google.gay Will they sue me for registering it?
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoYes. Google can enforce its trademark and take over the domain name.
- gruez 6y agoOTOH, you can probably get away with apple.gay, as long as you don't make your site too specific to apple computers.
- CydeWeys 6y agoToo late, already registered on February 19th.
- CydeWeys 6y agoAccording to WHOIS, google.gay was registered on February 11th. (Rights-holders are allowed to get in early through the sunrise process to prevent exactly the kind of squatting you're hypothesizing, though not typically this early.) whois -h whois.nic.gay google.gay [...] Creation Date: 2020-02-11T15:41:12.0Z
- chippy 6y agoduckduck could be a nice domain
- petterparker 6y agoreal.gay is still available for just 2200€/year!
- numlock86 6y ago> buy is.gay > make a fortune from selling subdomains
- tobilocker 6y agoIf you are into (falsely) blaming people for their sexuality, that would be a great idea...
- hitpointdrew 6y agoHow is stating a fact "blaming"?
- tobilocker 6y agoThe commonly in informal speech used phrases "that's so gay" or "that person is gay" together with the recommendation of using it as subdomain led me to the clue that the intended use case is to "joke about" or "blame" people more than using it of a way to broadcast someones sexuality to the public
- i_love_limes 6y ago> Buy TLD aimed for a community of persecuted people > Use it to make fun of them Cool.
- abstractbarista 6y agoIt's only 'fun' if you let it be. Nothing wrong with stating facts. Be proud!
- fourstar 6y ago>persecuted Everyone is a victim, huh?
- 737maxtw 6y agoIronically I saw it more as profiting from folks who would have such as a domain as a showing of pride, but i am fortunate enough to work in an environment where people are comfortable enough to do that sort of thing.
- tuxxy 6y agoI preordered https://areyou.gay https://areyou.gay a while ago. I don't know what to put on it, but I would like to host a FAQ or something for people who are questioning their sexuality and make it v wholesome.
- messe 6y agoAs a temporary placeholder, I suggest either putting a big <h1>Yes</h1>, or maybe have it be <h1>No</h1> dependent on an RNG. In the same vein as http://arethebritsatitagain.com/ http://arethebritsatitagain.com/
- tobilocker 6y agoAnd then giggle in your basement?
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- ffpip 6y agoOr make a huge profit selling subdomains. person-name.areyou.gay ?
- arkitaip 6y agoI think you should transfer the domain to a gay rights org or similar because this type of domain squatting is obnoxious. I mean, you didn't even have a plan for the domain, just registered it for the novelty.
- JakeWesorick 6y agoSeems better then someone with worse motives registering it first.
- tuxxy 6y agoIsn't the open internet great? I can register a domain to use for my own purposes so I can also have a voice.
- bartvk 6y agoI'm not a native speaker; does gay unequivocally relates to romantic preference? Or can it also simply mean "joyful"?
- peteretep 6y agoIt can also be a given name and a surname. However, 99.9% of usage in English these days is sexual orientation related.
- jodrellblank 6y agoI was going to say “and a name which is neither”, but I didn’t realise the atomic bomb dropping superfortress Enola Gay was named for the pilot’s mother. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay
- mmm_grayons 6y agoThere's still a distinct meani g of happy. For some reason, though, people are trying to stamp it out; I hardly hear it used in new writing.
- pulse7 6y ago"For some reason..." ...the reason is that today "it mostly evolved into sexual orientation" like another commenter said.
- gilrain 6y agoInterestingly, the adverb form is still mostly used in the joyful sense. "The weather cleared, and the people danced gaily."
- CydeWeys 6y agoIt's not remotely as nefarious as that, it's just that language evolves over time and conflicting meanings that cause confusion tend to be weeded out.
- shultays 6y ago
- pixelpoet 6y agonvidia.gay is up for grabs at 2k euros. I wonder if they'd buy it off you.
- fortran77 6y agoIf you try to use it in a way that affects their trademark, they will "sue" it off you.
- invokestatic 6y agoThey will file a trademark claim against you under ICANN UDRP[1]. These are arbitrated so they’re cheap to file and are very quick to resolve (compared to courts). [1] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en
- pixelpoet 6y agoThanks, although my example was none too classy, I had no idea what is actually done in such cases.
- rimliu 6y agoHow about .straight and .bisexual?
- cjsaltlake 6y agoThe community for straight people is too disparate to be meaningful. .bi is interesting though..
- whymauri 6y agoCertainly nobody is stopping someone from applying for these gTLDs. It's just an expensive process, IIRC.
- cpach 6y agoFeel free to launch them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain
- IanDrake 6y agoWhy not, we should all be able to announce our sexual preferences through our email address. But why stop there? Might as well make things clear with sub-domains. Bob@white.muslim.palistinian.overfourty.bald.fat.gay
- offbyone 6y agoCan you imagine how many john@white.christian.american.overforty.fat.straight email addresses there'd be?
- gruez 6y agoBefore anyone gets any ideas: >The use of .gay for anti-LGBTQ content or to malign or harm LGBTQ individuals or groups is strictly prohibited and can result in immediate server-hold. Prohibited behavior includes harassment, threats, and hate speech. For the complete policy, see: https://toplevel.design/policy https://toplevel.design/policy
- tobilocker 6y agoI did not expect that people here would have needed that reminder to not come up with "funny" ideas
- offbyone 6y agoI did. And one needs only look at the sibling comment to yours to see early warning signs.
- enumjorge 6y agoNo kidding. The quality of the discussion on this thread is disappointingly low.
- crumbshot 6y agoThe quality of discussion on HN is generally quite low these days. But it's even worse on topics that touch on issues of social justice or relate to persecuted minority groups. Too many commenters here appear to be sorely lacking in empathy.
- throwawayblmers 6y agoWould you say BLM bandits and looters are lacking in empathy when they are destroying small business? Or is that fine because some 160 years ago some black dude in Africa sold his countrymen into slavery?
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- alex_young 6y ago.gay sounds like a great way to champion gay rights for a given place or brand. I hope it will become a typical pattern and actually do some good in the world.
- mytailorisrich 6y agoIn reality, and like most things these days, this will only promote more division and more identity politics.
- hn_is_terrible 6y agoNo surprise to see that so many of the comments here are gay jokes. The juvenile bigotry of HN strikes yet again. So much for substantive commentary.
- mytailorisrich 6y agoThis opens the flood gates for TLDs for every community under the sun (as long as it is PC, of course). There is gold at the end of the rainbow... But really this trend of multiplying TLDs ad infinitum has been going on for years because it's free money.
- numpad0 6y agohxxp://ni.men.gay/wo?na-gar
- CydeWeys 6y agoWow there's a lot of childish homophobia coming out in the comments here. I (naively?) thought that HN would be better than that for some reason?
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- cuddlecake 6y agoThinking that HN would be better than <insert any bad behavior here> is a bit too hopeful of an assumption. Everyone is prone to bad / ignorant behavior. HN users being no exception.
- CydeWeys 6y agoI disagree. Some communities are actually much better than others on a variety of issues. I mistakenly thought that this was an issue HN would have been better and more mature on too, but I'm learning I was wrong about that. But compare your average 8chan poster to your average HN poster and you'll see that for sure not all online communities are the same.
- cuddlecake 6y agoI don't even know how to argue on this. The average HN poster is definitely better than the average 8chan poster. But that does not mean all HN posters are free of being hateful/discriminating against certain groups of people. Be it by accident or willfully.
- CydeWeys 6y agoI for sure never thought that all HN posters were free of hate/discrimination, I just thought they were better than we're seeing here. But I was proven wrong in that.
- apta 6y agoExcept that being critical of homosexuality does not mean that someone is "homophobic" any more than someone critical of capitalism is "capitalism-phobic" or socialism as "socio-phobic" or whatever.
- LovingPointer 6y agoIt finally came out
- rootbear 6y agoJust checked and yes, enola.gay is registered. That was inevitable, I suppose, if a bit regrettable. (Edited for clarity.)
- nazgulsenpai 6y agoWhy is it .gay and not .lgbt? Seems like the latter would be more inclusive.
- brentm 6y agoThe company that runs it also does other domains like .art, .blog, .design, .group, .ink, .llc, .photography, .style and .wiki. I'd say they just picked the most generic thing that they thought would make the most money.
- thiht 6y ago.lgbt already exists (afilias)
- jbob2000 6y agoMany in the LGBT community feel that the acronym does not accurately capture their identity. LGBTQIA+ is the currently acceptable acronym to use, so you can see how the use of .lgbt would be "harmful". Also, you can't have a + symbol in a TLD, which would also be considered "harmful" should it ever be up for implementation. All in all, the use of gTLD names to reinforce identity is stupid. .com and .org mean company and organization. It's the words before those letters that define the type of company or organization you are, that's where your identity is supposed to lie.
- Simulacra 6y agoWhy not .lesbian? .transgender?
- AdmiralAsshat 6y agoSo if I buy apple.is.gay, can I expect to be immediately sued by Apple for libel and/or have the domain seized on grounds of trademark infringement?
- hn_is_terrible 6y agoHow about you cut your own hands off so we don't have to read these stupid "dur hur hur Apple is GAY" comments in future?
- barnaclejive 6y agoWhy would they sue you for libel?
- AdmiralAsshat 6y agoSimilar concerns were raised when the .sucks domain was first made available: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/6795/legal-issues-of-a-website-such-as-businessnamesucks-com https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/6795/legal-issues-of... That's primarily what I was looking for clarification on. I have no personal malice against Apple, it was simply the first example that came to mind.
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- globular-toast 6y agoI feel really out of touch and alienated when it comes to this whole gay thing. I used to think I was progressive because I never have and never will care what people do to their own bodies, including whatever kind of sex they want to have, as long as nobody is being harmed involuntarily. But now it seems that's not what is expected. Instead, you are expected to know and care about what sex people like to have. I just don't get it. Keep it to yourself. Why is it not OK to just not care about other people's private lives any more?
- mrwnmonm 6y agoMost downvotes here are just pathetic. It is amazing how people claim to have some insight other people just don't get, while they fight dirty and want to shut up other people.
- Simulacra 6y agoAt last! What I've always wanted.
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