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Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken
- SoftTalker 2mo agoBe wary of vanity TLDs and even some country codes, they may be available but once the renewal rolls around and you've invested time and effort into establishing a presence there, you may be in for a price shock.
- inigyou 2mo agoYou're also subject to US law on anything that isn't a ccTLD and even several ccTLDs.
- echelon 2mo ago"cod.ing" ... available!? Someone just dropped their registration for that today!? Namecheap... Hurry... Login, come on... TOTP, uagh... Come on, come on... register, register... ... $39,000.00 !??! "Premium" name?! What is this garbage?
- gruez 2mo ago>What is this garbage? Registries realized they can capture the value from premium domains rather than letting domain speculators profit.
- matheusmoreira 2mo agoWhich is an even worse problem than speculators. My domain was once held by some kind of speculator who wanted like $2k for it. I registered a .net instead. At some point they just dropped the .com domain, no idea why. Now I have the .com all to myself. Now that registrars are doing this, there's no way out.
- reticulates 2mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
- moffkalast 2mo agoIt's always struck me as odd that TLDs are not just, well, freely configurable? Domains have always been subject to so much artificial scarcity for seemingly no reason. Why can't a DNS resolver handle .whatever?
- Foorack 2mo agoIt can, you just need to pay $210,000 to buy that TLD.
- moffkalast 2mo agoHmm okay to rephrase my question, why are ICANN such money grubbing assholes? Is it a political thing?
- doublerabbit 2mo agoBecause they can; it's a racket. Like paid SSL certificates, all of it is corporate greed. One solution is running your own DNS servers. This way you can list your own TLD's. However good luck in convincing others to change their DNS.
- ck2 2mo agoI'm surprised that "AI" right inside most search engines these days was not the final nail in the coffin of domain importance, and specifically .com browsers hiding most of the URL also negated much of the importance and was a nail QR codes on everything and all phones in everyone's hands all the time was another nail You just don't want a scammy TLD but not even sure what those are these days anymore
- agys 2mo agoI went with https://meltd.ooo/wn https://meltd.ooo/wn for my little NFT project
- dgellow 2mo agohaha, that's one of the best web animation I've seen. Nice job. Love how interactive it is
- doublerabbit 2mo agoThanks to Brexit, I lost my .eu domains. This really pissed me off. Maybe it's a good thing we are all afraid to visit any other tld other than dotCom.
- culi 2mo agodot org is right there and is at least run by a non profit. The SAVE .ORG campaign succeeded in preventing private equity from buying it out. Thanks to EFF, Wikipedia, NPR, Greenpeace, the YMCA, and even the Girl Scouts!
- jsrcout 2mo agoYikes, must have missed that one. Horrifying thought.
- inigyou 2mo agoYou could've found an EU person to hold the domains for you btw. Regardless, it's usually politically safest to put your domains under your own country's ccTLD. That way, you're exposed to one fewer country's dumb politics.
- doublerabbit 2mo ago> you're exposed to one fewer country's dumb politics. That would be .co.uk, so, jail time for hosting memes.
- inigyou 2mo agoYou could get jail time for hosting memes if you're in the UK no matter what domain you use. However, if you use a .me domain, then it can also be taken down for violating any law of Montenegro.
- arccy 2mo agoexcept if you choose to move, change nationalities, or the government suddenly doesn't like you
- Retr0id 2mo agoAn impressively busy UI for such low information density.
- seydor 2mo agothere s always a .com with some imagination
- bthornbury 2mo agolots of good ones still
- sixtyj 2mo agoAnd if you find one as available, book it and pay it immediately.
- seemaze 2mo agoTried until I ran out of 'dissections' with zero results on known good domains.. It seems like it just matches a list of precomputed entries, but does no actual operation of the user input.
- Grombobulous 2mo agoThese are fun but regular people have so much difficulty with them. I once snagged a 4 letter .net address that was the last 3 letters of my first name with the first initial of my last name as the last character. I thought I was so clever. I had the shortest email address you could ever imagine and it was basically just my first name and last initial. Amazing! Nobody got it. It was confusing. I got blank stares and confused looks. People basically refused to email me at my new address. Sometimes long is better, and sometimes unique and easy to spell is better, too. Examples like Pinterest or Expedia are good demonstrators. They are easy to spell when you hear the word, and they were unique words that at the time were obviously going be available. Sure, Expedia is a very old domain, but if the company didn’t exist today I’d almost guarantee you a new company looking to buy the domain would be able to find it in 2026.
- avunit 2mo agoVery true, I found a similar issue with vanity/hack domains too. Picked up https://jo.hn https://jo.hn a couple of years ago and the confusion it causes isn't really worth the cool-factor most of the time! They tend to really just be suitable as a supplementary domain for short links and the like (youtu.be, goo.gl, etc.)
- Grombobulous 2mo agoI have even had people confused at [last name].io even though tech industry folks consider that one really common. I can see why many companies end up paying lots of money to transition over to .com when they get to a certain size.
- sodapopcan 2mo agoYa, I have an .st domain with is <my-first-name>@<first-three-letters-of-last-name>.st and I've had a few people have a lot of trouble with it. With one, it took about 6 or 7 tries to explain it to him before I just took over and typed it for him. Most people do get it, though, and sometimes think it's neat.
- ZPrimed 2mo ago