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There are a lot of these kinds of TLDs, and I always find it fun to skim through the root zone file to find more of them. https://www.internic.net/domain/root.

• judge2020 4y ago
  https://ntldstats.com/tld https://ntldstats.com/tld shows how many hosts they have as well.
• givemeethekeys 4y ago
  How does one get such a tld? Answer: To get your own TLD, you need to submit a completed, detailed application and fee (likely around $200,000) to ICANN. Then, ICANN will evaluate the application (and Afilias can help with this). If approved, you can proceed to launching with domain registrars. Source: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/afilias-explains-how-to-get-your-own-top-level-domain-tld/ https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/afilias-explains-how-to-get...
  • CydeWeys 4y ago
    ... but first, you need a time machine to go back a decade.
    • masukomi 4y ago
      not really. there aren't that many TLDs. So many good options are left for the young bitcoin billionaires to spend their money on.
      • CydeWeys 4y ago
        There haven't been any new gTLDs delegated since ICANN ran round 1 of the gTLD expansion program in 2012. It doesn't matter how much money you have; you need to wait for round 2.
  • rkagerer 4y ago
    That link is informative but the podcast is from 2016 and the last round for registering new gTLD's closed in 2012. It looks like we're inching closer to a new round: https://gac.icann.org/activity/subsequent-rounds-of-new-gtlds https://gac.icann.org/activity/subsequent-rounds-of-new-gtld... Skimming the recommendations, they want wider participation from the non-western world and I suspect the $185k application fee may go down a bit (there's also an annual fee of $24k, +25 cents per second-level domain) Anyone know how much a company like Afilias charges for its end of things if you choose to outsource the IT? (e.g. assistance with the application, spinning up the TLD, ongoing costs to maintain)? EDIT: Some quotes from Instra: https://www.instra.com/en/new-gtlds/pricing https://www.instra.com/en/new-gtlds/pricing Here are some links to prior ICANN guides and other info if you want a better sense of the application process: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain And dated from an era when the fee was a mere $5k: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/tas https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/tas
    • duskwuff 4y ago
      > I suspect the $185k application fee may go down a bit Honestly, my expectation would be that the application fee will go up, because the first round received so many terrible applications (like brand TLDs that the trademark owner had no intention of using).
  • 1letterunixname 4y ago
    They used to be several megabucks. It's still a scarcity filter by virtue of an absurd pile of money for flipping a few bits and claiming enormous "administrative" expenses.
  • Bluecobra 4y ago
    Is this just ICANN being greedy to get large companies buy and park these TLDs?
• andrewxdiamond 4y ago
  My personal favorite is .diamonds, strictly because it gets me the best personal website domain ever: https://andrew.diamonds https://andrew.diamonds (My name is Andrew Diamond)
  • kmoser 4y ago
    Interestingly, I discovered a few years ago that my first name is a TLD.
  • maxbond 4y ago
    I own max.bond, but I've not done anything with it quite yet!
    • ctennis1 4y ago
      caleb.tennis checking in
    • rpastuszak 4y ago
      That’s the opposite of my situation: I have a tonne of ideas, but .pastuszak ain’t happening any time soon!
    • padolsey 4y ago
      Did you all pay $185k for these?
      • andrewxdiamond 4y ago
        My domain is like $8 a year from cloudflare
      • maxbond 4y ago
        I paid an embarrassing amount of money (as I purchased it on the secondary market), but not even 1% of $185k. .bond was originally created for Bond University who presumably did pay something like that; they sold the TLD to ShortDot, and now it's marketed to people selling bonds.
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• lbhdc 4y ago
  What do you have to do to get one added?
  • symlinkk 4y ago
    Bribe ICANN
• ck2 4y ago
  Why would corporations drop $200,000 on their own TLD and not even route the bare root to somewhere? ie. this works http://ai http://ai. this does not but could work? http://bestbuy http://bestbuy. http://bestbuy http://bestbuy will get re-write to .com by firefox, I don't like that, chrome will not re-rewrite
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  • forgotpwd16 4y ago
    Dotless domains on gTLDs are prohibited. Technically can work (albeit with risks not easily solvable as explained in ICANN link) but is not allowed. https://features.icann.org/dotless-domains https://features.icann.org/dotless-domains
    • ranger_danger 4y ago
      then how does http://ai/ http://ai/ exist?
      • brewmarche 4y ago
        That’s not a gTLD, it’s a ccTLD. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24442033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24442033 for why it’s allowed on ccTLDs
      • recuter 4y ago
        That only works in Chrome for me so I assume it became sentient somewhere deep in the googleplex and is trying to escape.
        • notpushkin 4y ago
          Works in Waterfox for me as well.
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• snowwrestler 4y ago
  Neustar got .neustar and switched the UltraDNS domain to ultradns.neustar. Then they did some sort of corporate split last year and now they’re telling all their customers to switch back to ultradns.com. Highlights one of the pitfalls to custom TLDs: the corporate sponsor might split or even go bankrupt. Then what happens to all those URLs? Talk about link rot… never thought we would have to worry about TLD rot.
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• quanticle 4y ago
  There is a better formatted version here: https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt