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I find only ".com" names cool. All other are cheap, junk or designed to extort.

daemoens 4y ago
name.info/.dev and the like are pretty cool for personal pages though. People always design them really well because it's about them personally.
- xwdv 4y ago
  This same reason is why they are perfect for extortion. It’s personal so you will be emotionally motivated to fork over $850 on renewal. Plus if you’re a developer, you make good money, so they know you’re good for it.
  - phendrenad2 4y ago
    Supposedly they do it to discourage domain squatters, which makes some sense, because every .com or .net that's even remotely usable is held by some squatter and they would rather hold the domain for decades than sell it for anything less than thousands.
  - danaris 4y ago
    > Plus if you’re a developer, you make good money ...which is absolutely a stereotype born of the Silicon Valley bubble, and not actually true in practice. The vast majority of developers do not work in Silicon Valley, nor for FAANGs (or whatever the abbreviation is nowadays), and do not make several hundred thousand a year or have highly valuable tech stock options.
    - xwdv 4y ago
      So you’re a developer making bad money?
      - danaris 4y ago
        I'm a developer making a decent but not extravagant living in a low-cost-of-living area, who's sick of the assumption that every developer is somehow rolling in disposable income.
        xwdv 4y ago
        I know recruiters that can get you a remote job making more than what you make now, guaranteed. And then I will get a $5k finders fee bonus.
        danaris 4y ago
        I...might actually be interested in that. Less for the money (though that's always an enticement) than for the full remote, which I've been planning to push for in the very near future.
handsclean 4y ago
I think the coolest TLDs are .edu, .org, .gov, and .com, in that order, because that’s ordered by likelihood the content (not design) will be good, knowing nothing else about the website.
- lupire 4y ago
  and .net
- vel0city 4y ago
  The coolest TLD is .ninja 'cause ninjas are cool. Or maybe .ice, 'cause that's cool as ice.
- pjot 4y ago
  The coolest is absolutely .cool
  - toast0 4y ago
    Saying that you're cool isn't cool.
arminiusreturns 4y ago
I really like my .net names, but since the recent drama... I think I just hate dns in general.
- ezequiel-garzon 4y ago
  What recent drama, if you don’t mind?
  - arminiusreturns 4y ago
    ICANN control moving to a different body, but I was thinking of the .org stuff a few years ago... but after looking it up it seems ICANN actually did the right thing on that one so... I'm not sure what I was referencing.
layer8 4y ago
Nah, .net and .org are the coolest.

name.info/.dev and the like are pretty cool for personal pages though. People always design them really well because it's about them personally.

xwdv 4y ago
This same reason is why they are perfect for extortion. It’s personal so you will be emotionally motivated to fork over $850 on renewal. Plus if you’re a developer, you make good money, so they know you’re good for it.
- phendrenad2 4y ago
  Supposedly they do it to discourage domain squatters, which makes some sense, because every .com or .net that's even remotely usable is held by some squatter and they would rather hold the domain for decades than sell it for anything less than thousands.
- danaris 4y ago
  > Plus if you’re a developer, you make good money ...which is absolutely a stereotype born of the Silicon Valley bubble, and not actually true in practice. The vast majority of developers do not work in Silicon Valley, nor for FAANGs (or whatever the abbreviation is nowadays), and do not make several hundred thousand a year or have highly valuable tech stock options.
  - xwdv 4y ago
    So you’re a developer making bad money?
    - danaris 4y ago
      I'm a developer making a decent but not extravagant living in a low-cost-of-living area, who's sick of the assumption that every developer is somehow rolling in disposable income.
      - xwdv 4y ago
        I know recruiters that can get you a remote job making more than what you make now, guaranteed. And then I will get a $5k finders fee bonus.
        danaris 4y ago
        I...might actually be interested in that. Less for the money (though that's always an enticement) than for the full remote, which I've been planning to push for in the very near future.

handsclean 4y ago

I think the coolest TLDs are .edu, .org, .gov, and .com, in that order, because that’s ordered by likelihood the content (not design) will be good, knowing nothing else about the website.

lupire 4y ago
and .net
vel0city 4y ago
The coolest TLD is .ninja 'cause ninjas are cool. Or maybe .ice, 'cause that's cool as ice.
pjot 4y ago
The coolest is absolutely .cool
- toast0 4y ago
  Saying that you're cool isn't cool.

arminiusreturns 4y ago

I really like my .net names, but since the recent drama... I think I just hate dns in general.

ezequiel-garzon 4y ago
What recent drama, if you don’t mind?
- arminiusreturns 4y ago
  ICANN control moving to a different body, but I was thinking of the .org stuff a few years ago... but after looking it up it seems ICANN actually did the right thing on that one so... I'm not sure what I was referencing.

layer8 4y ago

Nah, .net and .org are the coolest.