• @[email protected]
      6•3 months ago

      Obviously, there’s still a need for a lot of things at the international level, but a lot of what lives directly under TLDs is really stuff that’s clearly not and will not be global

      Arguably contravenes the spirit of a single international network. I would be uncomfortable with the idea of further reinforcing the role of the nation state, which is arguably an invention that has already passed its expiry date.

      But it’s definitely past time that the USA took its government offices out of the global namespace.

    • @[email protected]OP
      3•3 months ago

      Appreciate the thoughtful reply! I can see where you’re coming from in terms of opening TLDs up creating a bunch of issues, even though I do still enjoy the more playful ones despite that.

      It’s honestly a little surprising that so many have been made available given the issues it can present, but I think that’s largely a byproduct of approaching the internet less from a rigidly structured perspective and more of a loose informal perspective.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
      1•3 months ago

      globally-unique identifier

      I’m not a right wing religious conspiracy type, but NGL, that makes my 'OH NOES! MARK OF THE BEAST!" senses all tingly lmao

  • @[email protected]
    22•3 months ago

    Thanks to these new TLDs I can have an @national.shitposting.agency email address.

    What a time to be alive.

  • @[email protected]
    20•3 months ago

    I’m somewhere in the middle on it. Like mentioned elsewhere, some of it feels like it’s just to generate additional business around domain registration while companies buy up duplicates to prevent spoofing. Also “.zip” is a fucking travesty.

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•3 months ago

      do you think you’d be able to tell if it was instead a massive homelab run by the microorganisms in your house?

  • Lvxferre
    8•3 months ago

    I think that the whole DNS syntax system was poorly designed, that the original division in seven top-level domains (.com, .net, .mil, .gov, .org, .edu, .int) was short-sighted, government/country-based top level domains have some reason to exist but in practice everyone picks whatever (e.g. “.ml” URLs often have nothing to do with Mali, “.it” with Italy or “.ee” with Estonia). But it’s damn easy to say that in two thousand bloody twenty four, so I don’t blame the people creating this mess. (Plus fixing it would make an even bigger mess).

    But I digress. I typically associate the original seven with old businesses. I have some weak suspicion towards services using country code TLDs to spell obvious words (like, say, “among.us”), but otherwise I associate ccTLDs with local stuff. No strong opinion towards newer TLDs.

  • @[email protected]
    8•3 months ago

    I despise the current system where ICANN lets you slap anything you want on the end of your domain. It means it’s easier to fake a company landing page and it’s a cash grab from an organization that’s supposed to be a non profit. The original domain hierarchy created easily recognizable structure where now it’s just anarchy.

    Medicare.com (and their tv commercials) was a good example of misleading people. Some cities and states are using .com sites when they should be using .gov.

    The only new TLDs I find useful are .blog and .tv (for streaming sites, not Transylvania). And not many sites are using those.

  • qevlarr
    5•3 months ago

    The new ones won’t catch on so it doesn’t bother me that much. We should be grateful that the enshittification isn’t faster when it comes to URLs

  • @[email protected]Deutsch
    3•3 months ago

    I still would have preferred if the top level domain was at the beginning of the URL (com.google). Would have made a lot of pushing way more difficult and more sense.

  • HubertManne
    2•3 months ago

    country ones, .edu, .mil, and .gov are all that matter. .org and .net never really worked out well as it just became a secondary catch all after .com. Ive never even seen .int used