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When Best Buy goes bankrupt, what will happen to this TLD?

forgotpwd16 4y ago
Dies (see: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/the-death-of-a-tld https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/the-death-of-a-tld). Something that anyone should consider before getting a domain on a hippy GTLD. Alongside with how "bad" reputation it has that is usually correlated with low price offers.
- CydeWeys 4y ago
  Nope. The public ones don't die, they simply get assigned a new registry operator. Check out EBERO: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ebero-2013-04-02-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ebero-2013-04-02-en
  - forgotpwd16 4y ago
    The link you gave says emergency operation is provided preferably for a length of 12 months. That's it's meant to be a temporary measure (which is self-explanatory by the "emergency" in the name).
    - CydeWeys 4y ago
      The 12 months is more than long enough to get a permanent operator assigned to run the TLD if the emergency operator isn't going to continue doing so. ICANN isn't just going to let an entire TLD's worth of domain names fall off the face of the Internet. This isn't theoretical either; they already went through it for .wed: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/next-steps-for-the-wed-generic-top-level-domain-19-5-2021-en https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/next-steps-for-the-we...
      - forgotpwd16 4y ago
        I see. That's very good to know. Was remembering it the other way but seems I was wrong.
augusto-moura 4y ago
I imagine that it would still be up for the time the NS servers would be up. If they don't care about it, after the servers go silent the domains would become unreachable. But they would probably sell the ownership of it to someone else, or at least keep a few servers just for the sake of keeping it. Edit: As forgotpwd16 pointed out, they can also give up their ownership
1letterunixname 4y ago
They'll never go bankrupt because they have enough remnants of ignorant mall customers to buy overpriced cables and because they're the last major game left in technology retail besides big box stores.
- Bluecobra 4y ago
  Not sure if the employee discount is still the same (close to cost) but a friend of mine worked there around 20 years ago and I was shocked how cheap he could get cables.
  - jfray2k22 4y ago
    When I worked there, margins on the cables were something like 85-95% so employee discounts were huge. On other items, TVs and such, the margins are much much lower so at most you got $25-50 off of the sale price.

Dies (see: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/the-death-of-a-tld https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/the-death-of-a-tld). Something that anyone should consider before getting a domain on a hippy GTLD. Alongside with how "bad" reputation it has that is usually correlated with low price offers.

CydeWeys 4y ago
Nope. The public ones don't die, they simply get assigned a new registry operator. Check out EBERO: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ebero-2013-04-02-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ebero-2013-04-02-en
- forgotpwd16 4y ago
  The link you gave says emergency operation is provided preferably for a length of 12 months. That's it's meant to be a temporary measure (which is self-explanatory by the "emergency" in the name).
  - CydeWeys 4y ago
    The 12 months is more than long enough to get a permanent operator assigned to run the TLD if the emergency operator isn't going to continue doing so. ICANN isn't just going to let an entire TLD's worth of domain names fall off the face of the Internet. This isn't theoretical either; they already went through it for .wed: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/next-steps-for-the-wed-generic-top-level-domain-19-5-2021-en https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/next-steps-for-the-we...
    - forgotpwd16 4y ago
      I see. That's very good to know. Was remembering it the other way but seems I was wrong.

augusto-moura 4y ago

I imagine that it would still be up for the time the NS servers would be up. If they don't care about it, after the servers go silent the domains would become unreachable. But they would probably sell the ownership of it to someone else, or at least keep a few servers just for the sake of keeping it. Edit: As forgotpwd16 pointed out, they can also give up their ownership

1letterunixname 4y ago

They'll never go bankrupt because they have enough remnants of ignorant mall customers to buy overpriced cables and because they're the last major game left in technology retail besides big box stores.

Bluecobra 4y ago
Not sure if the employee discount is still the same (close to cost) but a friend of mine worked there around 20 years ago and I was shocked how cheap he could get cables.
- jfray2k22 4y ago
  When I worked there, margins on the cables were something like 85-95% so employee discounts were huge. On other items, TVs and such, the margins are much much lower so at most you got $25-50 off of the sale price.