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Watch out, the .so domain presents a lot of headaches

by jitl 6y ago

toper-centage 6y ago
Like what?
- deleted 6y ago
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- config_yml 6y ago
  https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1360246445341818882 https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1360246445341818882
- breakfastduck 6y ago
  Apparently a nightmare to renew. It is a somalian domain name after all. I don't understand why its so trendy. Notion went down a few months ago due to issues with their .so domain and they said they're planning to move.
  - capableweb 6y ago
    notion.com redirects to notion.so, so they already own that domain too.
- st_goliath 6y ago
  Some years back, I used to be the proud owner of "libgoliath.so", but then they suddenly decided to hike the price to IIRC Euro 80,- per year (either that, or prove that I have a Somalian citicenship). So I dropped that. So now I'm the proud owner of "goliath32.com", which I currently keep parked until I finally, hopefully get around to overhauling my 10 year old personal site.
  - vanderZwan 6y ago
    "Price hike", really? I would not exactly call 6.67 euros a month a rip-off. Given your reaction to it, it seems like a very reasonable policy to ensure that people claiming a URL really have plans with it, while keeping out foreigners parking on Somalian webpace for the lulz. EDIT: some context that is probably relevant to this topic that I should not presume to be familiar with everyone is the controversy surrounding .io domains: https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/ https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...
    - st_goliath 6y ago
      I'm old enough to remember personal websites being a thing, before everyone and their company went over on that Face Site. I had a personal site back than which IIRC 2010 or 2011-ish I moved to the domain I mentioned, and, at the time, I kept updating the site somewhat regularly (before than I had a .de domain, which was really darn cheap and the site was in German only). The .so NIC "adjusted" the price IIRC around 2014 or so. Most of the domains I have, or ever had, cost somewhere < 20 Euro per year. Whether this is a reasonable price for occupying less than 100 bytes in someones database (among tons of others, paying for that privilege) is debatable, but is IMO ok-ish. When it gets closer to Euro 100,- per year (IIRC!) it does start to get painful and I start thinking if that is really worth paying out of my own pocket for my spare time stuff that people nowadays may not even look at at all. At that point I start thinking "I'd rather have a tilde-directory some place and eat a couple Pizzas a year for the money instead". I migrated that stuff to goliath32.com and, after I simply ran out of time/enthusiasm to maintain a blog, I eventually decided to split the software projects up to a separate, more professional looking place, under "infraroot.at" (a TLD in the country where I live). As I said, I still want to get my act together on the personal stuff and eventually bring the goliath32.com back to live, which I have currently shelved since the interesting stuff was moved elsewhere. Politics and country matters are something to keep in mind, of course, when you get yourself a fancy two-letter TLD (thanks for pointing out the .io controversy), but please don't try to spin a glorified database entry for which I'm not willing to pay for through my nose into some kind of ad-hominem attack.
      - 6y ago
  - m463 6y ago
    Looking towards the future, maybe you should snag goliath64.com, and while you're at it, maybe GOLIATH.DLL
airstrike 6y ago
Sadly, read.me is not available
fnord77 6y ago
libgc.so :D
- tediousdemise 6y ago
  glibc?

Watch out, the .so domain presents a lot of headaches

by jitl 6y ago

Watch out, the .so domain presents a lot of headaches

toper-centage 6y ago

Like what?

deleted 6y ago
[deleted]
config_yml 6y ago
https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1360246445341818882 https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1360246445341818882
breakfastduck 6y ago
Apparently a nightmare to renew. It is a somalian domain name after all. I don't understand why its so trendy. Notion went down a few months ago due to issues with their .so domain and they said they're planning to move.
- capableweb 6y ago
  notion.com redirects to notion.so, so they already own that domain too.
st_goliath 6y ago
Some years back, I used to be the proud owner of "libgoliath.so", but then they suddenly decided to hike the price to IIRC Euro 80,- per year (either that, or prove that I have a Somalian citicenship). So I dropped that. So now I'm the proud owner of "goliath32.com", which I currently keep parked until I finally, hopefully get around to overhauling my 10 year old personal site.
- vanderZwan 6y ago
  "Price hike", really? I would not exactly call 6.67 euros a month a rip-off. Given your reaction to it, it seems like a very reasonable policy to ensure that people claiming a URL really have plans with it, while keeping out foreigners parking on Somalian webpace for the lulz. EDIT: some context that is probably relevant to this topic that I should not presume to be familiar with everyone is the controversy surrounding .io domains: https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/ https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...
  - st_goliath 6y ago
    I'm old enough to remember personal websites being a thing, before everyone and their company went over on that Face Site. I had a personal site back than which IIRC 2010 or 2011-ish I moved to the domain I mentioned, and, at the time, I kept updating the site somewhat regularly (before than I had a .de domain, which was really darn cheap and the site was in German only). The .so NIC "adjusted" the price IIRC around 2014 or so. Most of the domains I have, or ever had, cost somewhere < 20 Euro per year. Whether this is a reasonable price for occupying less than 100 bytes in someones database (among tons of others, paying for that privilege) is debatable, but is IMO ok-ish. When it gets closer to Euro 100,- per year (IIRC!) it does start to get painful and I start thinking if that is really worth paying out of my own pocket for my spare time stuff that people nowadays may not even look at at all. At that point I start thinking "I'd rather have a tilde-directory some place and eat a couple Pizzas a year for the money instead". I migrated that stuff to goliath32.com and, after I simply ran out of time/enthusiasm to maintain a blog, I eventually decided to split the software projects up to a separate, more professional looking place, under "infraroot.at" (a TLD in the country where I live). As I said, I still want to get my act together on the personal stuff and eventually bring the goliath32.com back to live, which I have currently shelved since the interesting stuff was moved elsewhere. Politics and country matters are something to keep in mind, of course, when you get yourself a fancy two-letter TLD (thanks for pointing out the .io controversy), but please don't try to spin a glorified database entry for which I'm not willing to pay for through my nose into some kind of ad-hominem attack.
    - 6y ago
- m463 6y ago
  Looking towards the future, maybe you should snag goliath64.com, and while you're at it, maybe GOLIATH.DLL

airstrike 6y ago

Sadly, read.me is not available

fnord77 6y ago

libgc.so :D

tediousdemise 6y ago
glibc?