CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 4y ago
The Turkish lira is currently experiencing ~85% year-on-year inflation. Our domains' prices are denominated in US dollars, not Turkish lira. This problem looks to be caused by currency headwinds. At the time of initial registration,
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Indeed that is correct. For more information see: https://registry.google https://nomulus.foo (our open source software that runs our TLDs)
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
There's a little bit more to it than that! We did indeed launch our first TLD, .みんな, in early 2014, around 8½ years ago, but the team itself has existed for around a decade. There was plenty of work to do prior to launching our first
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
To be clear, I work on Google Registry, not Google Domains. I don't particularly know anything about Google Domains other than basic generic information that applies to all domain name registrars. I can't even say that I know wha
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
This is called "front-running" by the domain name registrar and it is a big no-no. Fortunately it's not what happened here though.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I'd still much rather see "100 MW continuous" over "100 megawatt-hours of power each hour". And the former actually tells you a lot more than the latter, as with the latter it could be bursty (e.g. much more than 1
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
If it was an up-front price only, it would be a lot more than $850 at initial registration. But the relevant (and desired) incentive with an ongoing price is that if the registrant is no longer utilizing the domain name, they are much more
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
That is what I believe is happening as well.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> It's hard to take this seriously when $850/year is still way higher than other registrars charge for new domains. That's actually a great price for a good domain name. If the name is already registered by a squatter loo
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
That post links to a query for a non-premium domain name. Of course forum.dev is more valuable than asdfggg.dev. If you query a premium domain name that is available for registration (e.g. money.dev), you'll see that the listed price
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
If you send me the domain name in question privately (use my HN username here @gmail.com), I can dig into it further. I suspect it's either an issue with the domain name registrar, in which case you should try out some others, or it&#
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I have been working for Google Registry for 8.5 years now, and am the TL/M of the team. But I was not relying on memory here (how would I remember the particulars of one single domain name out of millions, especially on the first occa
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I think they're referring to the Early Access Program, which was a one-time pre-launch Dutch auction in advance of general availability. Note that that is orthogonal to a domain being premium or not. During the last day of EAP, you m
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> It is likely that there was no premium pricing in the beginning. It was established after the initial lease The premium pricing was there in the beginning. We have never increased the price of a single domain name after it was initi
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
You can move premium domains there, you'll just pay the appropriate price for them.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
They paid $850 for the first year.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Hi. I work on Google Registry. forum.dev is and always has been a premium domain name (and you paid that same premium price at initial registration). We price some domain names higher than others to help prevent cybersquatting, so that des
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> Large semiconductor fabs use as much as 100 megawatt-hours of power each hour Ooof, this kind of writing where the author doesn't understand units just gets my goat. Just say it uses 100 MW! Geez.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Yeah, so looking back at the release dates of these, I definitely used at least back through OS 7, but I can't say I remember anything specifically about them because it's fading into the haze of youthful memories. In my mind it&#
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Awesome, this is so cool! I remember MacOS 9 with a mix of fondness, hatred, and nostaglia. OS X was definitely a big improvement when it came out (I remember OS 9 having so many crashes), but some of the charm was definitely lost. And thes
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Curious what the problem is? Animals with bones have existed for hundreds of millions of years. The environment knows what to do with them. PFCs by contrast do not exist naturally in the world and they act as a toxin in the environment.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Good point. I can rattle off criticisms of an idea instantly if it happens to touch my little corner of the industry I've been working in for over eight years. It's rare at this point that I ever encounter a novel idea that I have
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Oh come on. "No comment" is always what a company says in a situation like this, where saying anything else might hurt them in a future lawsuit. It doesn't mean they don't care, it means they have lawyers with the ba
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Even if you are using DoT, the DNS provider will still know you're using Maps if it resolved the subdomain, and the DNS provider itself might well be the biggest privacy threat here.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> "oops, we left someone behind on Mars and now he has to eat potatoes to survive". You should read his most recent book Project Hail Mary then. It's a much grander concept than that, and I absolutely would put it up again
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I'm using Android Chrome on a network with a PiHole and didn't see any ads either.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
What do you think they were using before guns? Hint: it's whatever weapons were commonplace at the time.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
What?! That's not comparable at all. The computer isn't murdered, it's just off. Also even if you did destroy the computer, that's not murder.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
No? High nominal interest rates are clearly themselves still bad for business.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Honestly, I feel like a lot of the people complaining about this feature are just bad drivers who regularly drive unsafely and are now getting called out on it. This in particular: > Sometimes, though, I will allow the distance between m

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