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.it may be the .tk of the 2020s

by mkl95 4y ago

toastal 4y ago
Shame too. I was hosting my personal site on .tk when I was broke out of college, but often a link too it was automatically flagged as spam.
password1 4y ago
Why? .tk was popular because it was free, so it was really useful for teens and young adults in an era when you still had to host things somewhere if you wanted them online. On the other hand .it is the tld of Italy and used legit by all businesses of EU's third largest economy.
- ricardobeat 4y ago
  .it is currently being offered for free / €1
  - peoplefromibiza 4y ago
    .com are being offered free or €1 as well, but you don't need to be an EU member with a valid EU ID to register a .com https://www.register.it/domains/?lang=en https://www.register.it/domains/?lang=en https://imgur.com/W0XkZIj https://imgur.com/W0XkZIj https://imgur.com/a/p9sFsKj https://imgur.com/a/p9sFsKj
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qalmakka 4y ago
Just, no. Plenty of legitimate websites under .it, basically every single Italian company plus all localized versions of international websites (apple.it, google.it, ...)
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y ago
  >basically every single Italian company Sounds about as trustworthy to me as a .tk domain.
  - qalmakka 4y ago
    I don't know, there's a big difference between Italy and Tokelau. Also you have to be an EU citizen or company in order to register a .it domain, while .tk allowed everyone and their dogs to get one for free for years without having a connection to the islands whatsoever.
marginalia_nu 4y ago
Whatever domain name is cheap is going to be plagued by spam. I think in recent time, .icu and .xyz have been the most problematic, to the point where you to this day probably don't want to host a mail server on those domains. The same with cloud providers. A fairly significant amount of sketchy websites seem to be hosted on cheap cloud providers with weak rules enforcement. I've taken to blocking all of Alibaba's IP ranges from my search engine crawler, the signal to noise from those sites were so bad it just wasn't worth looking for legit content.

.it may be the .tk of the 2020s

by mkl95 4y ago

.it may be the .tk of the 2020s

Shame too. I was hosting my personal site on .tk when I was broke out of college, but often a link too it was automatically flagged as spam.

password1 4y ago

Why? .tk was popular because it was free, so it was really useful for teens and young adults in an era when you still had to host things somewhere if you wanted them online. On the other hand .it is the tld of Italy and used legit by all businesses of EU's third largest economy.

ricardobeat 4y ago
.it is currently being offered for free / €1
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago
  .com are being offered free or €1 as well, but you don't need to be an EU member with a valid EU ID to register a .com https://www.register.it/domains/?lang=en https://www.register.it/domains/?lang=en https://imgur.com/W0XkZIj https://imgur.com/W0XkZIj https://imgur.com/a/p9sFsKj https://imgur.com/a/p9sFsKj
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qalmakka 4y ago

Just, no. Plenty of legitimate websites under .it, basically every single Italian company plus all localized versions of international websites (apple.it, google.it, ...)

aaaaaaaaaaab 4y ago
>basically every single Italian company Sounds about as trustworthy to me as a .tk domain.
- qalmakka 4y ago
  I don't know, there's a big difference between Italy and Tokelau. Also you have to be an EU citizen or company in order to register a .it domain, while .tk allowed everyone and their dogs to get one for free for years without having a connection to the islands whatsoever.

marginalia_nu 4y ago

Whatever domain name is cheap is going to be plagued by spam. I think in recent time, .icu and .xyz have been the most problematic, to the point where you to this day probably don't want to host a mail server on those domains. The same with cloud providers. A fairly significant amount of sketchy websites seem to be hosted on cheap cloud providers with weak rules enforcement. I've taken to blocking all of Alibaba's IP ranges from my search engine crawler, the signal to noise from those sites were so bad it just wasn't worth looking for legit content.