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I mean that Google won't show the results and you also won't actually remember the domain, because it's clever. And in this case, it's a spanish domain so is ex

by ljm 5y ago

I mean that Google won't show the results and you also won't actually remember the domain, because it's clever. And in this case, it's a spanish domain so is expected to cater to Spain. It's not unique, the .cat TLD for Catalonia requires that you serve your content in Catalan, so as to prevent people abusing the obvious appeal of a TLD that in English translates to a cute pet. .io, .ly and .sh have been victims of this technical imperialism.

dylan604 5y ago
To me, that sounds a lot like a 2 year old type of behavior. Does anybody really even care what a TLD is or is "meant" to be used as? Honestly, if it's not a .com, most people are going to screw up and add .com out of sheer habit. It's the friggin' internet. If it's out there, someone will do something they feel like doing with it even if that's not the originally intended concept.
- noiwillnot 5y ago
  > Does anybody really even care what a TLD is or is "meant" to be used as? Yes, the owners of the TLD. The same way that I cannot register a .google, .no, or .uk at all.
  - kernelbugs 5y ago
    You can register a .no domain through a broker similar to how whois privacy at most registrars works: the broker is the registrant but then affords you full control of the domain.
    - codetrotter 5y ago
      That sounds like a bad idea. If your site is successful the broker could jack up the price to let you keep control. Better to stick to registering domains directly through a normal registrar. And if you are not in a position to create a Norwegian enkeltpersonsforetak or aksjeselskap, then why bother with a .no domain?
mrunkel 5y ago
Pretty rich to call them victims. They have benefitted from a large amount of revenue and if they wanted, they could have easily prevented foreign registrations by requiring a mailing address in the country or that the registered site has some tie to the region. Like your example of .cat. What exactly have these countries lost?
- zinekeller 5y ago
  Probably everything, except for .tv (Tuvalu) which do have a good agreement. I'm skipping on .io since it's a rabbithole, but .ly and .sh aren't runned by or on behalf of their governments, they instead are being runned by different companies. The most notorious of these is Niue's (.nu), which their government try their best to recover from a Nordic country to no avail (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nu) .

by ljm 5y ago

dylan604 5y ago

To me, that sounds a lot like a 2 year old type of behavior. Does anybody really even care what a TLD is or is "meant" to be used as? Honestly, if it's not a .com, most people are going to screw up and add .com out of sheer habit. It's the friggin' internet. If it's out there, someone will do something they feel like doing with it even if that's not the originally intended concept.

noiwillnot 5y ago
> Does anybody really even care what a TLD is or is "meant" to be used as? Yes, the owners of the TLD. The same way that I cannot register a .google, .no, or .uk at all.
- kernelbugs 5y ago
  You can register a .no domain through a broker similar to how whois privacy at most registrars works: the broker is the registrant but then affords you full control of the domain.
  - codetrotter 5y ago
    That sounds like a bad idea. If your site is successful the broker could jack up the price to let you keep control. Better to stick to registering domains directly through a normal registrar. And if you are not in a position to create a Norwegian enkeltpersonsforetak or aksjeselskap, then why bother with a .no domain?

mrunkel 5y ago

Pretty rich to call them victims. They have benefitted from a large amount of revenue and if they wanted, they could have easily prevented foreign registrations by requiring a mailing address in the country or that the registered site has some tie to the region. Like your example of .cat. What exactly have these countries lost?

zinekeller 5y ago
Probably everything, except for .tv (Tuvalu) which do have a good agreement. I'm skipping on .io since it's a rabbithole, but .ly and .sh aren't runned by or on behalf of their governments, they instead are being runned by different companies. The most notorious of these is Niue's (.nu), which their government try their best to recover from a Nordic country to no avail (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nu) .