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It bothers me that we still have those useless suffixes attached to domains. What does „org“, „com“, „net“ even mean to the average user? Nothing. It’s nothing
by 9dev 4y ago
It bothers me that we still have those useless suffixes attached to domains. What does „org“, „com“, „net“ even mean to the average user? Nothing. It’s nothing but a pointless ritual at this point, and after ICANN chose to add thousands of generic domains, they don’t have any significance left at all, except that nice names are very expensive now. It would be easier for everybody if we simply removed that extra step that is TLD names.
- nephanth 4y agoRegional TLDs like .us .uk .fr .ru etc. do make sense though
- HideousKojima 4y agoUntil they're useful for making a catchy address, like me.ga (which wasn't hosted in Gabon)
- Gigachad 4y agoMany region level tlds require a legal presence. .au requires you to provide an Australian Business Number to register. It’s mostly the tiny islands that decide to cash in on fancy tlds who don’t care so much about providing them as a service to the small population.
- moffkalast 4y agoI still don't know why ICANN gets to tell people what they can or cannot have as their TLD name. It's just a string, it doesn't cost anything more to compare on the DNS server if it's custom or standard.
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoI don't know if every ICANN restriction can be justified from first principles, but there definitely has to be some strategy to ensure nobody sets up a .(U+0585)rg TLD.
- jonas-w 4y agoThat's why punycode exists.
- viraptor 4y agoThere's still a need to limit the TLDs. In small increments it doesn't matter if we add another one. But fully opening the floodgates? I don't think the root server operators would be happy about the load.
- rchaud 4y agoIt helps identify scammy low-effort sites. Too cheap to spring for the .com, and went for .news instead? Pass.