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ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick? (www.theregister.com)
submitted 3 days ago by tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Do you have ideas for TLDs? Here's some of mine, not sure if any of these exist already:

  • .plus
  • .now
  • .ent (short for enterprise)
  • .one
  • .er (for domain hacks, don't get any ideas)
  • .db
  • .source
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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’d pick going back to .edu, .gov, .mil, .com, .org, .net — and actually enforcing their meanings. None of this cash grab bullshit where a company has to buy the TLD for their company name over and over.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

.gov and .mil should disappear. The US can use .gov.us like any other country.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Honestly it is pretty silly it's still like that. Are the subdomains enforced in other countries?

The other option is expand .gov .mil for all UN nations and enforce country sub domains (ie .us.gov and .md.gov).

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

France has .gouv.fr.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Italy used to have .gov.it and all Comune could register their own, but now only the central government can use gov.it

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I think I'm biased towards .it.gov as an option because then you could have smaller orgs of a country fall under it

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

i think we're pretty much past that era, honestly.