Because it's no longer 1996 and there are domains beyond ccTLDs and com/net/org?
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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.
Yep, straight from Macarena to Tubthumping and nobody even noticed.
I hate that my brain played little riffs of both of those songs for me just by seeing their titles.
That was an upgrade, imo
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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.
I'm waiting for .7z because it doesn't nag me to register it.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
Commercial sites have .COM
Why do porn sites not have .CUM?
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.
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Because porn sites are commercial sites.
hmm… lemmynsfw.com
FOSS people have...weird taste in naming stuff. See: GIMP, GNU, et al.,
Wtf is an ubuntu
Ubuntu is a South African ethical ideology focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word comes from the Zulu and Xhosa languages.
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They look better and more quirky than the "usual" ones. Also, sometimes they might be even cheaper
Uh, I think they're always cheaper!
Definitely not. Some examples (actual prices I pay for my various domains):
- com: $18/y (gTLD)
- net: $19/y (gTLD)
- de: ~$5/y (ccTLD)
- re: ~$5/y (ccTLD)
- design: $49/y
- tech: $55/y
- blue: $23/y
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lemm.ee's admin is Estonian, so that one at least makes sense.
Cost of domain name tends to be cheaper with more obscure Top Level Domains (TLDs). .com .org .net TLDs are expensive because they are popular and high in demand. You have to rent them out most of the time. Many are already claimed so you either have to buy the owner out or wait till they stop paying and it expires if you really want it, .xyz is very cheap and uncommon on the other hand thus pennies on the dime per year to rent. Also depending on where you live and your occupation you can actually get a domain name for free through registering with specific services that actually for real own the Top Level Domains. If you are a citizen of a certain country you can get a .us or .cad or .eu .ml domain ect either for free or very very cheap.
Check out this list for all TLDs and if you qualify for one for free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
Heres a free domain name registar thats quite promising from the looks of it, most likely the one that lemmy.ml uses https://www.freenom.com/en/index.html?lang=en
Do not use Freenom. They notoriously revoke domain names on high traffic sites and without notice.
http://www.freenom.com/en/doc_tcpaid_freenom_v0100.pdf https://www.reddit.com/r/freenom/comments/107qzn1/freenom_is_out_of_order_and_it_made_my_domains/
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i own a .xyz domain, the .com equivalent was 50 times more expensive
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?
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.
For me, it's the .zip domain. (recently added at the request of google)
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.
Yeah but nobody uses .com files anymore. Its a dead format. Any that still do are for specific users and rare instances.
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huh, Windows still distributes a handful of .com programs. Neat.
I liked .com back in the day because it was easy to write assembly and dump it through the MSDOS 'debug' program to create an executable.
.com was a common file extension for MS-DOS executables, which was still in common use when the Internet started taking off.
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Most TLDs have no requirements. .gov is special.
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New gTLDs have been released constantly since ICANN dropped the restriction. Also consider that a lot of Lemmy instances are run by individuals as a side project. That means they'll reuse or nab whatever cool sounding domain they can get to spin up their new instance as quickly as possible. Corporate websites might pause and consider a more "marketable" domain.
Personal theory of mine is *.itjust.works meant to stand for "It Just Works" until they decided to give this Lemmy thing a go.
Personal theory of mine is
*.itjust.worksmeant to stand for "It Just Works" until they decided to give this Lemmy thing a go.
Yep it's referencing a meme that originated almost a decade ago. https://youtu.be/nVqcxarP9J4
Registration and renewal cost plus more availability, most shorter names are taken on the older tlds.
I came up with mine by scrolling through tldlist comparing prices and going with the first idea that popped in my head.
Because people think domain hacks are cool, and also, gTLDs are usually more expensive.
What better place for people to get together and have fun? No ... it was cheap and domain name was available.
It's fun
I got lemmy.fan just a few months ago. I wanted a short, memorable TLD that stood out a little.
It’s fun! From lib.lgbt.
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