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ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick?
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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Lmao. $227k just to get heard. Looks like it's time for a .227k domain.
.ent would quickly be picked up by the cannabis enthusiasts of course
It’s important to note that two letter domains are generally reserved for country codes and would require a country for them to be provisioned.
Time for Oracle to use an army of their lawyers to sue the Oracle country into existence and register .db
.crimes for cataloguing the crimes of the corresponding websites. E.g microsoft.crimes or x.crimes or whitehouse.crimes
- .md
- .tar
- .gz
- .iso
- .lnk
- .txt
- .exe
- .mp4
- .mp3
- .jpg
- .png
I want to watch the world burn like it did on the creation of the .zip TLD
.md already exists for Moldova
Linux shebang logic looking pretty genius.
.fedi seems obvious given where we are.
I believe more Tlds is generally stupid. But instead of all the protect the children bullshit, I'd be good with a .kids tld that requires certification to own. Then you can just whitelist that for your precious crotch goblins and leave the rest of us alone.
That's a good suggestion, but unfortunately age verification is not about protecting the kids, it's about removing anonymity from online platforms and making sure that we can't exercise our right to speech online without risking government harassment.
Oh yeah and the advertisers don't want to pay to advertise to bots.
The idea would be to provide a "protect the kids" alternative that doesn't require global surveillance and privacy violations, so the next time they try to justify another rights violation to "protect the kids" they can be pointed to the sane alternative, and (hopefully) they'll run out of excuses.
I mean, one would wish it'll play out like that, though I have some doubts. Somehow excuses seem to be always found.
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wank.er
I got ideas.
.slop ?
Microsoft should be the owner of the slop domain.
.dot
I'd love to have dot.dot.
.slash
.backslash
.dash for Morse code enjoyers
Clever lol
.moon / .nasa / .usa / .cali
you can check if domain is tld here https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
.antifa and .profa so we don't have to guess where the company/project/person/etc. stands.
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.crom
Crom.crom
... It offers nothing.
Also .slash, because chaos must reign.
Ohh!
How about .— for all the LLMs to create their own deepweb on?
We can just call the realworld version of the Blackwall the EmWall, fittingly more stupid and annoyingly named than anything in actual cyberpunk, as seems to be the writing style for our timeline.
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.
.gov and .mil should disappear. The US can use .gov.us like any other country.
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).
France has .gouv.fr.
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- .hell
- .nope
- .bruh
- .con (to be used exclusively for scams)
- .duck
- .dot
.ope : for all your midwestern typo needs
.doom : all domains registered in this TLD must have a playable version of Doom somewhere on the site
.ram : about as price effective as buying actual RAM rn. I call dibs on more.ram so I can have a downloads page at download.more.ram
.er .db
All two letter TLDs are exclusive to countries. So unless you make a country called Ergostan and Dbaseistan and get them internationally recognised you are out of luck. However, if you manage you don't have to pay the fee!
./
..
.https://www/
.dot-com
.enter
.fedi for Fediverse Project
I think we really need a .docx.
Why not do all of the classic office file extensions?
Ruin windows search even more? I like your thinking
.ICANNT
.milk
.polka
.weinermobile
.supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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