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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) la

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

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