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.
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.
You can buy .zip if you want to now… that still doesn’t sit right with me
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.
Similarly, I’ve never seen a .xyz that wasn’t used for altchans or sketchy porn sites
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.
I’m still waiting for .rar so I can buy unregistered.rar, which is the way it’s meant to be.
Why does ICANN allow so many weird domains to begin with? Domains used to be a good way to tell if you were going to the legit website.
.com - commercial entity .gov - government only .edu - educational entities only .net - network providers (ISP) only .org - non profit only
Those days are gone.
Now there’s Startrek.website and Startrek.com — how does the user know which one is owned by Paramount/Star Trek?
That’s not how the internet works. Any schmuck can buy those domain names except for .gov and .edu
I’m not an ISP, but I can get any .net domain for $11 a year. And then put ads and malware on the site. If someone else hadn’t snatched it already I could even register disney.net if I wanted to. There is zero guarantee that Disney is behind a Disney domain.
You’ll also find a hundred other Disney domains that are not owned by Disney. Big companies usually register a handful of domains for countries they do business in. And darn, some guy already registered disney.world :)
It didn’t. I can’t find a single reference that .net registration was ever restricted to networking companies at all (it might be the intention of the name, but there was never a requirement for it). Same for .com, you could just register them back in the day too.
Hell, .net was even free to register at first before they started charging for domains.
I feel like that’s been the case for a while now. You pretty much need a search engine and some sort of bookmarks tool to use the web.
I don’t know immediately if The Verges website URL contains a “the” or if BBC uses a .com or a .uk. I search both when looking for news at work so I don’t accidentally end up on porn.
That one in particular is a bomb waiting to blow. Is this link to a webpage or to a malicious download? Who knows! Guess we’ll just have to click on it and see if anything starts downloading.
Using file extensions for your TLD should be a big no-no for a lot of reasons, that being one of them.
Using file extensions for your TLD should be a big no-no for a lot of reasons, that being one of them.
That is what I said about .com.
Because people think domain hacks are cool, and also, gTLDs are usually more expensive.
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.
