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Wait until you hear all the bad things associated with .com domains!

by mjhayter 4y ago

j3s 4y ago
ha! i do wonder what the most wholesome domain names are.
- bena 4y ago
  I imagine .edu has to be up there.
  - leobabauta 4y ago
    I imagine you've never been screwed by a university.
  - atkailash 4y ago
  - yucky 4y ago
    .edu is associated with the greatest source of debilitating debt the world may have ever seen, all to prop up a jobs program for the administrative class in higher education and to pile more billions of dollars into their endowments.
- Ayesh 4y ago
  .cz is certainly up there, at least under current nic.cz: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZ.NIC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZ.NIC They strongly push for DNSSEC, supports a bunch of OS projects, etc.
  - j3s 4y ago
    neat!! this is great to know :3
- SilasX 4y ago
  Non-profit Irish charities using org.ie?
  - MikePlacid 4y ago
    I’ve seen some of the Russian sites using .it domain. -it is a suffix for many verbs in a (single,present) form, so basically the site name answers the question “what does this site do?”, like vesel.it - provides fun.
    - gerikson 4y ago
      Nauru domains (.nu) were popular in Sweden for a similar reason, it means "now".
- lob_it 4y ago
  Did you support putting Tokelau on the map with a free .tk domain? The trivia folks have a lot of .fud to memorize nowadays https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_d... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain# https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domai... .bs has nothing to do with the bahamas either (a pun well before the ftx shenanigans)
valeg 4y ago
.su is unmatched
- dweekly 4y ago
  I think .TK can give every other TLD a run for its money since domain registration is free and it is a haven for scams of every sort.
CydeWeys 4y ago
Right, so I get that this is a joke, but it's a content-free one. What are the bad things you think are associated with .com domains, exactly? Nothing comes to mind like what the linked article discusses about .io. As far as I know, .com is an entirely boring generic namespace, that doesn't have the same kinds of security/colonialism issues that the link says that .io has.

Wait until you hear all the bad things associated with .com domains!

j3s 4y ago

ha! i do wonder what the most wholesome domain names are.

bena 4y ago
I imagine .edu has to be up there.
- leobabauta 4y ago
  I imagine you've never been screwed by a university.
- atkailash 4y ago
- yucky 4y ago
  .edu is associated with the greatest source of debilitating debt the world may have ever seen, all to prop up a jobs program for the administrative class in higher education and to pile more billions of dollars into their endowments.
Ayesh 4y ago
.cz is certainly up there, at least under current nic.cz: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZ.NIC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZ.NIC They strongly push for DNSSEC, supports a bunch of OS projects, etc.
- j3s 4y ago
  neat!! this is great to know :3
SilasX 4y ago
Non-profit Irish charities using org.ie?
- MikePlacid 4y ago
  I’ve seen some of the Russian sites using .it domain. -it is a suffix for many verbs in a (single,present) form, so basically the site name answers the question “what does this site do?”, like vesel.it - provides fun.
  - gerikson 4y ago
    Nauru domains (.nu) were popular in Sweden for a similar reason, it means "now".
lob_it 4y ago
Did you support putting Tokelau on the map with a free .tk domain? The trivia folks have a lot of .fud to memorize nowadays https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_d... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain# https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domai... .bs has nothing to do with the bahamas either (a pun well before the ftx shenanigans)

valeg 4y ago

.su is unmatched

dweekly 4y ago
I think .TK can give every other TLD a run for its money since domain registration is free and it is a haven for scams of every sort.

CydeWeys 4y ago

Right, so I get that this is a joke, but it's a content-free one. What are the bad things you think are associated with .com domains, exactly? Nothing comes to mind like what the linked article discusses about .io. As far as I know, .com is an entirely boring generic namespace, that doesn't have the same kinds of security/colonialism issues that the link says that .io has.