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I’m confused about what “quality domains” means here. I’d honestly never heard of the `.ong` TLD, it seems intended for non-governmental organization. If you’re

by jcoder 3y ago

I’m confused about what “quality domains” means here. I’d honestly never heard of the `.ong` TLD, it seems intended for non-governmental organization. If you’re going to sell subdomains as “quality”, why not get a `.com`?

Brendinooo 3y ago
Oh, interesting. https://thenew.org/org-people/about-pir/policies/ngo-and-ong-registration-policy/ https://thenew.org/org-people/about-pir/policies/ngo-and-ong... >The mission and purpose of the .NGO and .ONG top level domain (“TLDs”) is to serve the global Non-Governmental Organization (“NGO”) Community by supplying it with exclusive TLDs that will offer NGOs and associations of NGOs differentiated and verified online identities.
- bozhark 3y ago
  As a founder of one, this seems unlikely to ever be used extensively
- rene_d 3y ago
  .ONG was new to me: "The PIR simultaneously applied for the top-level domain .ong, which is a similarly recognisable initialism for "organisation non gouvernementale" in French, and equivalent terms in many other Romance languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian." [1] So similar to e.g. NATO and OTAN. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NGO_and_.ONG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NGO_and_.ONG
- TrevorAustin 3y ago
  And here Oblong itself is the NGO, so mysubdomain.obl.ong isn't that crazy. "Oblong" is kind of an awkward word though. Anyone want to set up a fork at .bi.ngo? Dang, now I'm going to be thinking of .ngo and .ong domains all day...
  - olodus 3y ago
    Oh, now you got me started aswell. There are so many good ones. k.ong - cool word, don't know what it would be for. Maybe the home of the mascot of the K language (I don't think K has a mascot from what I know but they should have one). whats.wr.ong - find a therapist site. Much harder to figure out any on '.ngo' I feel...
    - amatecha 3y ago
      first .ngo I could think of: ta.ngo (probably will be registered within minutes of me posting this lol)
      - idiotsecant 3y ago
        oh yeah, that one's good.
    - esafak 3y ago
      bo.ngo, for physicists?
    - reesericci 3y ago
      boi.ngo for airport wifi
    - joombaga 3y ago
      Kong is a pretty popular API management tool.
    - em-bee 3y ago
      dja.ngo - the web framework. mo.ngo - the database. flami.ngo, gri.ngo, li.ngo, ma.ngo, ri.ngo. on the other side, how about str.ong?
      - deleted 3y ago
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reesericci 3y ago
It's just that .ong is not associated with spam, unlike say freenom which gives people .tk and is used extensively for spam.
- sirl1on 3y ago
  not associated with spam yet. Another TLD for a target audience that will never use the TLD because of it's obscurity so it will only be used by people looking for the cheapest domain to spam and scam.
  - reesericci 3y ago
    You can't get a .ONG without being a registered NGO.
    - sirl1on 3y ago
      I didn't know that, thanks. Hopefully it's strictly enforced.

by jcoder 3y ago

Brendinooo 3y ago

Oh, interesting. https://thenew.org/org-people/about-pir/policies/ngo-and-ong-registration-policy/ https://thenew.org/org-people/about-pir/policies/ngo-and-ong... >The mission and purpose of the .NGO and .ONG top level domain (“TLDs”) is to serve the global Non-Governmental Organization (“NGO”) Community by supplying it with exclusive TLDs that will offer NGOs and associations of NGOs differentiated and verified online identities.

bozhark 3y ago
As a founder of one, this seems unlikely to ever be used extensively
rene_d 3y ago
.ONG was new to me: "The PIR simultaneously applied for the top-level domain .ong, which is a similarly recognisable initialism for "organisation non gouvernementale" in French, and equivalent terms in many other Romance languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian." [1] So similar to e.g. NATO and OTAN. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NGO_and_.ONG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NGO_and_.ONG
TrevorAustin 3y ago
And here Oblong itself is the NGO, so mysubdomain.obl.ong isn't that crazy. "Oblong" is kind of an awkward word though. Anyone want to set up a fork at .bi.ngo? Dang, now I'm going to be thinking of .ngo and .ong domains all day...
- olodus 3y ago
  Oh, now you got me started aswell. There are so many good ones. k.ong - cool word, don't know what it would be for. Maybe the home of the mascot of the K language (I don't think K has a mascot from what I know but they should have one). whats.wr.ong - find a therapist site. Much harder to figure out any on '.ngo' I feel...
  - amatecha 3y ago
    first .ngo I could think of: ta.ngo (probably will be registered within minutes of me posting this lol)
    - idiotsecant 3y ago
      oh yeah, that one's good.
  - esafak 3y ago
    bo.ngo, for physicists?
  - reesericci 3y ago
    boi.ngo for airport wifi
  - joombaga 3y ago
    Kong is a pretty popular API management tool.
  - em-bee 3y ago
    dja.ngo - the web framework. mo.ngo - the database. flami.ngo, gri.ngo, li.ngo, ma.ngo, ri.ngo. on the other side, how about str.ong?
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]

reesericci 3y ago

It's just that .ong is not associated with spam, unlike say freenom which gives people .tk and is used extensively for spam.

sirl1on 3y ago
not associated with spam yet. Another TLD for a target audience that will never use the TLD because of it's obscurity so it will only be used by people looking for the cheapest domain to spam and scam.
- reesericci 3y ago
  You can't get a .ONG without being a registered NGO.
  - sirl1on 3y ago
    I didn't know that, thanks. Hopefully it's strictly enforced.