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TIL .softbank is a TLD now

• myself248 2y ago
  Opening up TLDs beyond the originals and CCTLDs completely invalidated assumptions about what domains and domain names should mean. A massive disservice to everyone whose intuition was helping them avoid scams and squatting, but hey, at least a lot of money changed hands.
  • tracker1 2y ago
    Yeah... I'm pretty burnt on them too... then again, I own about 20 I'm not actively using. Still not fun when you are just trying to come up with a domain name for an idea and everything is parked and/or they want thousands for the name.
• npongratz 2y ago
  Indeed, since January 2016: https://icannwiki.org/.softbank https://icannwiki.org/.softbank And confirmed by the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160116175915/http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20160116175915/http://data.iana....