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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.
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.
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I’m not a right wing religious conspiracy type, but NGL, that makes my 'OH NOES! MARK OF THE BEAST!" senses all tingly lmao
Thanks to these new TLDs I can have an @national.shitposting.agency email address.
What a time to be alive.
Wait is that email service the one that is offer by the same guys, who also offer 420blaze.it, cocaine.ninja and cock.li?
Yes, it’s cock.li
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.
Yes…
I mean, “.com” was a fairly important file extension before it was a TLD as well.
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do you think you’d be able to tell if it was instead a massive homelab run by the microorganisms in your house?
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.
Personally, the childish side of me will always get a kick out of .wtf in a website name.
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.
.TV is not new. It is a country-code TLD (ccTLD) and has been around since the 20th century.
Anyone wanting to know more about it and the island Tuvalu, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tv
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I like them. Just a personal opinion, of course.
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
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.
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
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