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Honestly the only "legitimate" use for these TLDs seem to be fediverse/bsky vanity URLs. Everything outside that just looks like a scam, even if it isn't.

runamuck 2y ago
Interesting! Now that you mention it, I did buy a .luxury domain for this purpose - a Gemini server. I also bought a .ski to have a domain with my (polish) last name.
- lexicality 2y ago
  It's great to be able to get silly domains for projects, back to the old days of IRC vanity hosts, but can you imagine seeing a link to something like jackets.luxury and going "yeah that seems legit, I'm definitely giving them my card details"
  - Symbiote 2y ago
    The first English result on Google for a .luxury site is this: https://leon.luxury/ https://leon.luxury/ It looks legitimate, and it's probably enabled Leon to use their business name in the domain. The first American site is https://roughwood.luxury/ https://roughwood.luxury/, it also looks fine.
  - qup 2y ago
    But then I remember it's just a pointer to 19.124.217.99 and I have no idea if it's legit or not, just like all the .coms.
  - digital_sawzall 2y ago
    Yes that is completely normal and the my younger relatives would not even think twice. In the TikTok and Instagram community people are spending billions not only on random domains (like tiedyeshirts.xyz) but often to venmo or zelle listed on profiles. My sister and thousands like her send money to faceless profiles to buy mystery boxes.
  - jeroenhd 2y ago
    By that logic, would you pull out your credit card if you got linked jacketsluxury.com? .luxury is about twice as expensive as .com so I'm more suspicious of .com sites than of vanity TLDs. I think there's a generational divide here, the older people seem to distrust more recent TLDs for some reason while younger people don't really care about them.
    - bigfatkitten 2y ago
      Nice thing about IRC is that you could do it for free so long as you controlled your PTR record.
    - lexicality 2y ago
      jacketsluxury.com - probably not, luxuryjackets.com would definitely look a bit more trustworthy
zahlman 2y ago
On the contrary, when I'm given a fediverse or bsky vanity URL I'm inherently suspicious of the domain; and when I go there and see that absolutely nothing of consequence renders without Javascript, I am very much disinclined to whitelist anything, even if the page claims that it's just running a Mastodon instance or whatever. ("A likely story", you know.)
- lexicality 2y ago
  if someone gives me a fedi url I'm almost certainly going to read it on my instance so it doesn't have any stupid CSS so imo you really don't need to be whitelisting anything

runamuck 2y ago

Interesting! Now that you mention it, I did buy a .luxury domain for this purpose - a Gemini server. I also bought a .ski to have a domain with my (polish) last name.

lexicality 2y ago
It's great to be able to get silly domains for projects, back to the old days of IRC vanity hosts, but can you imagine seeing a link to something like jackets.luxury and going "yeah that seems legit, I'm definitely giving them my card details"
- Symbiote 2y ago
  The first English result on Google for a .luxury site is this: https://leon.luxury/ https://leon.luxury/ It looks legitimate, and it's probably enabled Leon to use their business name in the domain. The first American site is https://roughwood.luxury/ https://roughwood.luxury/, it also looks fine.
- qup 2y ago
  But then I remember it's just a pointer to 19.124.217.99 and I have no idea if it's legit or not, just like all the .coms.
- digital_sawzall 2y ago
  Yes that is completely normal and the my younger relatives would not even think twice. In the TikTok and Instagram community people are spending billions not only on random domains (like tiedyeshirts.xyz) but often to venmo or zelle listed on profiles. My sister and thousands like her send money to faceless profiles to buy mystery boxes.
- jeroenhd 2y ago
  By that logic, would you pull out your credit card if you got linked jacketsluxury.com? .luxury is about twice as expensive as .com so I'm more suspicious of .com sites than of vanity TLDs. I think there's a generational divide here, the older people seem to distrust more recent TLDs for some reason while younger people don't really care about them.
  - bigfatkitten 2y ago
    Nice thing about IRC is that you could do it for free so long as you controlled your PTR record.
  - lexicality 2y ago
    jacketsluxury.com - probably not, luxuryjackets.com would definitely look a bit more trustworthy

zahlman 2y ago

On the contrary, when I'm given a fediverse or bsky vanity URL I'm inherently suspicious of the domain; and when I go there and see that absolutely nothing of consequence renders without Javascript, I am very much disinclined to whitelist anything, even if the page claims that it's just running a Mastodon instance or whatever. ("A likely story", you know.)

lexicality 2y ago
if someone gives me a fedi url I'm almost certainly going to read it on my instance so it doesn't have any stupid CSS so imo you really don't need to be whitelisting anything