I get that some instances use the domain + TLD to make a word, like lemm.ee or to an extent, sh.itjust.works. But I’ve seen so many TLDs I had no idea existed, like .world, .zone, .social, and yes .works as well.
Is there any real reason for that? Trying to look cool or kinda underground-y? Cheaper and more varied domain options? Something actually kinda functional?
Interestingly, I started on vlemmy.net because I was a scared Reddit refugee and the .net TLD gave me comfort. Then it vanished a few days later without a trace. So here I am on lemmy.world
Because it’s no longer 1996 and there are domains beyond ccTLDs and com/net/org?
It’s not 1996 anymore?!! Why didn’t somebody tell me? My license is probably expired.
One day it was just 1997. Damnedest thing, there was no vote or anything. Frankly I think it was a bad move.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
You can buy .zip if you want to now… that still doesn’t sit right with me
I’m still waiting for .rar so I can buy unregistered.rar, which is the way it’s meant to be.
Similarly, I’ve never seen a .xyz that wasn’t used for altchans or sketchy porn sites
I’m on lemmy.zip, has been swell.
The whole zip malware hype never came to be. Try it out, your Outlook isn’t replacing xyz.zip with a link.
I guess you could manually create a link, but those have never been safe before either as the text can be different from the URL.
Yeah, that domain screams scam emails to me.
here, mr boomer target, click this file
it’s a link that redirects to something else
I was surprised it took almost an entire day before appleinvoice. zip got snatched up🤣 I wonder how much appleinvoice or microsoft agreement is worth to some scammer.
Probably not as much as something more generic like “invoices”, “emails”, “communications”
Edit: I didn’t mean to make it a link lol… I actually have the domain blocked until I need a use for it.
It’s not that hard. Because people out there are still buying domains like tomandkatesfamouspizzacincinattiohio.net
Please don’t work please don’t work.
I have a few .coms that aren’t random letters, that are less than 8 characters. Got em mostly in the last decade.
I own candidvideosofouremployeesjerkingoff.com.
Can’t believe it hadn’t been nabbed yet.
“Weird” TLDs tend to be cheaper. .social is also supposed to be made for this in the first place
icecream.social is available, and I really want it, but I just can’t justify the $800 a year, even if the name is amazing.
Anything that is desirable is going to be more expensive. I share initials with a certain shoe company and a comic book company. Getting any domain name with my initials, even one of the “cheaper” TLDs is insanely expensive. Like $60K USD a year expensive.
The real reason is because it’s expensive to get a short and good .com name and also because it’s very corporate and boring.
Ehm, .xxx works fine for them. (And there’s more pr0n then male oriented hetro pr0n)
Hmmm, x.xxx as mastodon server just to annoy extwitter.
Because porn sites are commercial sites.
hmm… lemmynsfw.com
FOSS people have…weird taste in naming stuff. See: GIMP, GNU, et al.,
I’m a fan of the ones that are just letters. uzbl…srcpy…others that I can’t think of off the top of my head.
I’m sure I read on the scrcpy readme at some stage that the author intentionally chose that name to be as unpronounceable as possible after their first big project, gnirehtet. Can’t find a source now though.
How much this fucked up people hoarding interesting urls like menu.com and others?
There is an entire industry “domaining” that trades domain names like baseball cards. It usually boils down to two things:
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People register pdrq.com because they hope someone will have a wonderful new product named PDRQ later and will pay $10,000 for a domain that cost them $11.
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Even if there’s no direct buyer, there are services that will run low-quality ads on the page. and you can more or less estimate traffic and revenue from typos or dead links pointing to the domain. A three character domain, all letters, will get more than 12 characters with random digits mixed in. If you get $12 a year of random clicks seeing ads for “hot singles in your area offering PDRQ”, you’re ahead and can justify holding it as part of a portfolio.
Which really illustrates how much of a bubble waiting to burst online advertising is. Ads on pages like those don’t translate into any real-world value for anyone. The advertisers are paying out but they’re not actually gaining any sales/users for their money at all because no-one is mistyping a website name, then clicking an advert on the crappy-looking page that comes up, and then deciding to buy/use a product/service from that advert.
I managed to get seliaste.com for pretty cheap, idk if I got lucky
