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.is is a very resilient TLD indeed, and it's well known in some communities.
by pixel_popping 3mo ago
.is is a very resilient TLD indeed, and it's well known in some communities.
- floam 3mo agoisis
- arikrahman 3mo agoIt's a pretty good heuristic if some of the more targeted communities choose a TLD and stay up for some time.
- mfkp 3mo agohow about .to? that's what i'm mainly using for my url shortener/redirects and haven't run into any issues... yet
- ButlerianJihad 3mo ago[flagged]
- walrus01 3mo ago> American business based in America and doing business that benefits American citizens, rather than some random banana republic. This makes a huge presumption of rock solid stability of political/economic system, that America is not going the direction of a banana republic, in terms of graft, corruption and patronage, which it certainly seems to be these days.
- ButlerianJihad 3mo agoBeing an American citizen, I prefer to do business with American entities, regardless of what shitty opinion her detractors may express. I am loyal to her, more loyal than I would be to Tonga, or Montenegro, just to choose some random examples.
- walrus01 3mo agoI don't think you're wrong that tiny pacific island nations are not stable or reliable, at this point they're all either a client state of China, the USA or Australia. But I think it's also unfair and mean spirited to say that a country like Nauru (barely a country, IMHO, population of 12500 people) is "prostituting" itself by allowing 3rd party registrars to sell domains for a profit, since they have basically no other resource with the bird guano originated phosphate mines now being stripped clean. Would I use a Nauru domain? No. Do I go out of my way to insult them on the internet? Also no.
- shishcat 3mo agoBtw, I highly doubt Nauru makes much money selling their ccTLD, they manage it directly on the island and each domain costs a whopping 500$/year. Better examples: Tuvalu (.TV), Anguilla (.AI) Both of these countries (anguilla is not independent though) only get a cut of the money from the domains; all the technical management is done by GoDaddy for .TV and Identity Digital for .AI. In my opinion, very sad. .AI was run by a local guy in Anguilla (Vince Cate) utilizing the https://cocca.org.nz/ https://cocca.org.nz/ domain SaaS, but Identity Digital took over in late 2024.
- shishcat 3mo agoInteresting read from 2004: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2004/12/20/we-were-sold-into-porn-slavery-cry-african-islands/1109590 https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2004/12/20/we-were-sold-... But I strongly disagree with your conclusion. gTLDs are also run by profit-driven companies and operate under ICANN's US-rooted system. ccTLDs at least offer some jurisdictional autonomy and diversity. And many "trendy" ccTLDs are not actually run by unstable local governments. .me, for example, is operated with GoDaddy and Identity Digital, while .to relies on Tucows, a Canadian company. So the irony is that these ccTLDs often end up controlled or technically managed by the same North American companies you consider more trustworthy. Very few small/island countries actually manage their ccTLD directly, which is extremely sad.
- naturalmovement 3mo agoDidn't the crustacean site temporarily lose its domain a minute ago because someone had to make an in-person payment to whatever Serbian mafia controls .rs? Vanity domains are beyond stupid and not worth the trouble.
- inigyou 3mo agoA recent change in .to management gave it the technical ability to take down domains quickly.