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Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What ot
by whycome 3y ago
Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai).
Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago).
Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency.
What other TLDs are special?
- jszymborski 3y ago.io quite infamously https://www.thewebmaster.com/archived/io-tld-top-level-domain/ https://www.thewebmaster.com/archived/io-tld-top-level-domai...
- whycome 3y agoI legit didn't realize that .io was a TLD for a country/state. Also, that article is wild! In the future, we'll have a coup in some country and it will cause web chaos just from the TLD issue. (I've seen first-hand how some countries handle their ccTLDs...)
- CydeWeys 3y ago> I legit didn't realize that .io was a TLD for a country/state. All two-letter TLDs are. Now that you know the pattern, you'll be able to identify all the other ccTLDs as well.
- dataflow 3y agoFor some definition of country/state that includes .eu and such...
- wongarsu 3y agoYeah, Country Code TLDs is a bit of a misnomer, it's more "regions and territories". Lots of islands, lots of of countries with spotty international recognition, a couple countries that no longer exist (like the Soviet Union), and a couple "regions" (EU, Antarctic)
- progbits 3y agoOK I know this sounds kind of shitty but hear me out for the sake of argument. If there is some political issue and say .ai domains are taken over, what's stopping IANA from just taking over that TLD and moving the zone to some other entity? Most domains there are owned by international business and some IANA members might want to keep them running.
- Tams80 3y agoIt's a very biased article though.
- jetpks 3y agoi have a .af (afghanistan) domain that will expire next month. i can't renew it because the registrar isn't able to make contact with anyone at their noc since the US pulled out.
- bonzini 3y ago.cc (Cocos Island) was used most famously by Arduino. .cx (Christmas Island) domains were relatively common some 20 years ago, iirc because of some dynamic DNS provider. And of course .io is the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean territories
- whycome 3y agoI fully suspect .CX to see a resurgence as the short form for "customer experience" is really expanding quickly.
- dcl 3y agoHow many people would recall goatse every time they saw it though?
- ek750 3y agonot many I suspect, but enough. :)
- berkes 3y agoNo-one said CX is about good customer experience, though. And then: who am I to judge what a "good experience" is anyway.
- fakedang 3y agoI see that as an absolute win. Your CX is so good you'll bend over for your client.
- BeFlatXIII 3y agoTime to see if goat.se has the classic images we all love and expect.
- AdamH12113 3y ago.cx was probably most famous for goatse.cx. (For anyone who doesn't know -- don't go there. At least not while you're in public.)
- pavlov 3y ago.co (Colombia) is a fairly popular alternative to .com. .fi (Finland) was used by crypto/web3 companies during the 2021-22 hype cycle because it associates with finance (as in DeFi = decentralized finance). .is (Iceland) and .at (Austria) are English words and can be used for cleverish domains that form sentences in URLs, as in: this.is/amazing
- whycome 3y ago.gy (Guyana) may have some life (grun.gy, lethar.gy ?)
- pavlov 3y agoDomain power combo: big.dk + ener.gy
- timeon 3y ago> big.dk At least I have found what I have expected on that domain.
- palad1n 3y agoHaha. There also exists .co.ck, for real.
- pcthrowaway 3y agoI'm surprised sucks.co.ck is available. Seems like you could sell subdomains of that.. elon.sucks.co.ck, etc. I'm not personally willing to gamble on the $500 price tag though
- notpushkin 3y ago.ck has a special policy prohibiting any sort of profanity, and looks like you have to have an administrative contact in the country.
- matsemann 3y ago.tk was all the rage when I was younger, early 2000s something. You got a top level domain for free! Of course, they would just serve your webpage through a frameset with ads surrounding it unless you paid. But it rocked being able to say "visit my webpage matsemann.tk" instead of home.no.net/users/~matsemann/ (~ on Norwegian keyboard needs an alt+gr combo plus pressing space to show, and back in the days having to explain the direction of slashes also made it hard)
- bonzini 3y agoExcept for https://tcl.tk/ https://tcl.tk/ of course!
- PostOnce 3y agoYour direct link reminds me that many years ago, .tk was shadowbanned on reddit; you could see your post containing a .tk link, but no one else would. It might still be that way. I understand the (arguable) necessity and the prolific scams, but it seemed cruel to broke teenagers.
- riedel 3y agoOMG this really brings back some memories. I totally forgot about that .tk iframe thing. Wasn't it in the late 90s?
- schroeding 3y agoWas still a thing in the late 2000s, at least in my (european) internet bubble at the time. This was also one of the only ways for a broke middle schooler without a credit card to get a cool "real" domain. Combine it with dyndns, self-host some ancient-but-free bulletin-board software (Woltlab Burning Board may ring a bell for the European / German audience) after learning about this "Apache2" and "mod_php" thing and your small slice of internet with 10 users max is done. Good times. :D
- doublerabbit 3y ago
- p4bl0 3y agoIn the same vein as .tv there is the .fm (Federated States of Micronesia) for radio stations. Also, .ws (Western Samoa), which was sold as "web site".
- bombcar 3y agoSeen a decent number of usages of .fm for podcasts.
- sentientslug 3y agoLast.fm probably being the most famous example of a radio adjacent service using .fm
- deathanatos 3y ago.it (Italy) for "IT/Information Technology" IIRC it sort of has a residency requirement, but there are companies that will proxy your registration for you. More trouble than its worth to just not abuse the TLDs in this manner.
- toast0 3y agoMany registrars offer a service where they provide a local contact who meets the residency requirements of your preferred domain name. Not something to do lightly for an actively used domain name if you're an actual business, as it may establish presence in a jurisdiction you'd rather not be in; but it should be fine enough for personal use; worst case, you abandon the domain when it becomes an issue and maybe avoid travel to that country.
- igsomething 3y ago.rs (Serbia) for Rust projects.
- jonathankoren 3y agoAfghanistan (.af)
- palad1n 3y agoDoes anybody have one of these? I tried to register one once and the registrar just wouldn't let me.
- dessimus 3y agoCall me crazy, but I can't imagine the Taliban regime would be cool with English-speaking entities using their ccTLD for the "AF" meme.
- jonathankoren 3y agohttps://queer.af/about https://queer.af/about It’s still up, but it’s going down real soon.
- diggan 3y ago.cat (Catalunya) is frequently used by fans of the animal Cat, but it's for websites that "have a significant amount of contents in Catalan" - https://domini.cat/en/faqs/ https://domini.cat/en/faqs/ .nu (Niue) was originally owned by a Niue non-profit in Massachusetts, US, but was later transferred into Swedish ownership as "nu" means "now" in Swedish and lots of websites in Sweden were using it.
- robbiejs 3y agoSame thing in The Netherlands, it has the same meaning. There was a popular travel blog service named waarbenjij.nu, (meaning whereareyou now)
- account42 3y ago> the animal Cat Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature, An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature; Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations, A singular development of cat communications That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection. A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents; You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance. And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion, It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion. O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
- truculent 3y ago.gg is a bit more niche but I see it occasionally for gaming related sites (Guernsey)
- anderber 3y agoNotion for some reason still use Somalia (.so)
- sunnybeetroot 3y agoAnd that was a big problem for them a couple of years ago.
- omneity 3y agoMy personal website and blog[0] makes use of the Liechtenstein .li TLD. That makes it special (for me). We also use .co[1] at my startup since someone is squatting our .com 0: https://omarkama.li https://omarkama.li 1: https://monitoro.co https://monitoro.co
- troebr 3y agoI own a .pm domain, for Saint Pierre et Miquelon, I think you need to be European.
- kristianp 3y agoMontenegro: .me I assumed it was a domain created for personal sites, but it turns out its for the country.
- account42 3y agoIt is explicitly marketed for personal sites though and not limited to users in Montenegro (since 2008): https://domain.me/ https://domain.me/ There's the usual second level domains .co.me, .net.me, .org.me, .gov.me etc. reserved for actual Montenegrin entities.
- joezydeco 3y ago.ie, Ireland.
- account42 3y agoWhy would anyone want an Internet Explorer domain?
- kbaker 3y agoCameroon .cm is a good one. Close to a typo squat like .co
- xavdid 3y agoMy personal site uses .id so the site can match my username everywhere: https://xavd.id https://xavd.id I'm really quite fond of it. It's the Indonesian TLD, but there aren't residency requirements (for top-level domains). I've got the relevant `.com`s as a fallback, but I hope this sticks around without drama.
- notzane 3y ago.fm for radio and music related sites (Federated States of Micronesia)
- toyg 3y ago.IT is the Italian ccTLD /. One would think it would be a slam-dunk for, y'know, IT companies; but the infamous Italian bureaucratic sentiment ensured that registrations were, for decades, limited to Italy-based businesses (at one point, even individuals were barred....). I don't know if it's still the case.