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As someone with very little to no knowledge of TLDs and what they are associated with, what's wrong with a .to?
by pseufaux 3y ago
As someone with very little to no knowledge of TLDs and what they are associated with, what's wrong with a .to?
- soared 3y agoThey used to be given out as a free redirect like 20 years ago so all the spam/garbage/etc sites had some random url but advertised “random.to” as their url. I had many many free like name.forumsbb.com that I advertised as name.to
- paddim8 3y agoThey were free until very recently
- lagniappe 3y agoTypo, should have been .tk - reason being for so long they were the cheapest, or in some cases free, which led to a long history of abuse being associated with the TLD. Incidentally, there's a bit of this in .to as well, so perhaps a Freudian error.
- duskwuff 3y agoBoth ccTLDs fall into the same category of "small company that sold out / got sold out to a scammy sorta-free-domains service", and both of them carry the same stigma as a result.
- felixg3 3y agoIn Germany, .to-Domains were associated with warez/torrents, independently of the technology actually used to transfer the files. One of the most famous streaming websites in the German speaking web was kino.to and the domain kept its reputation.