Just found that "Charleston Road Registry Inc." is the legal name for Google's registry...
varun_ch 2 hours ago [-]
so many TLDs that seem to be exploiting similarity to existing ones?
.cmo/.con are particularly egregious
sheept 1 hours ago [-]
I wonder if xyz.com is simply requesting TLDs based on domains their users enter, so cmo and con come from their users’ typos rather than malicious intent. It would be similar to how some registrars park domains when a user checks if a domain is available.
JoshTriplett 1 hours ago [-]
That would be an absurd amount of money to spend on typosquatting.
sneak 1 hours ago [-]
Yes, these should be banned.
sixdimensional 1 hours ago [-]
Does anyone know if subdomains on these gTLDs are required to be offered/sold publicly once acquired?
I don't understand how some of them can be granted to just one company when they are a "global" namespace, and then not allowed by the public to purchase or use.
I'm not talking about ones that are the name of a well known huge company that is unlikely to disappear.
input_sh 50 minutes ago [-]
There's like a 500 pages rulebook, but yes, if you're applying for a .genericterm, you have to make it available for purchase. Or in ICANN's terms, "closed generics" are prohibited.
snailmailman 6 minutes ago [-]
Really? I’ve had my eye on a domain with a tld that a registry owns but does not make publicly available for purchase. It’s been that way since 2015. Amazon owns it. I guess if such a rule exists it’s a new rule, unfortunately.
Seems like this is the case for a few domains. .book, .author, and others got bought by Amazon who hasn’t really done anything with them?
gregdotca 2 hours ago [-]
Very nice! Some more sorting and filtering options would be handy, and some more view options, so each TLD doesn't take up half the screen when it has a lot of applicants.
PS - Your Source link is a 404.
2 hours ago [-]
irs 1 hours ago [-]
thanks. just added more views and filters now.
peesem 36 minutes ago [-]
plenty are stupid or probably malicious but i'm happy for anything that will maybe convince people to stop making programs that check for a "valid" tld (they always have stale lists). i use an unusual ccTLD and i get told plenty that i've entered an invalid email
bhaney 2 hours ago [-]
> .lan
Don't you dare, Coffee Danger LLC
skrtskrt 2 hours ago [-]
Seriously that is the sort of thing that could get you hunted down by angry nerds.
I am NOT going to use .home.arpa.
edoceo 27 minutes ago [-]
My home network is "example.net", nobody messes with example.
ASalazarMX 15 minutes ago [-]
That's it, I'm moving our company to corp.com.
yathern 2 hours ago [-]
Very useful! I found this article a really good summary of the gtld situation:
NSFW warning please. I clicked on this link while my screen was visible to to others and freaked out.
skrtskrt 2 hours ago [-]
I have been looking for an expansion of TLDs that are short, have a decent ring for self-hosting stuff, and don't sound too scammy.
Like `.link` is pretty cool but it's expensive because one of those personal-link-inbio companies created it and wants to cash in on it.
Just from scanning these, maybe:
* .air
* .bit
* .hub
* .iam
* .index (long but I love how universal it is)
* .lab
* .log
* .pod
* .port
* .self is really interesting, wonder if that would take off
* .sys
* .zen
devmor 2 hours ago [-]
I'm exhausted by all of the new gTLDs at this point, opening them up to specific companies and organizations basically violated the entire purpose of a gTLD in the first place.
lokoj 27 seconds ago [-]
The only purpose I'm familiar with is raising ICANN's operating budget. I'd imagine another round of auctions means another budget expansion.
zokier 8 minutes ago [-]
gTLDs didn't really ever have any meaningful purpose though, that is kinda the crux of the problem. Postel didn't bother enforcing any sort of policy of what goes where so the gTLDs became completely meaningless.
gelstudios 2 hours ago [-]
i'd like to see this (filter / exclude) the dotBrand or brand-specific TLDs, as they are not open to the general public.
like .playstation or .airbnb or .nike
irs 45 minutes ago [-]
thanks. added a "hide brands" filter now.
embedding-shape 2 hours ago [-]
Finally .scam might be something for all us scammer, I'm tired of getting mixed up with a bunch of honest-looking people.
None of this seem to have any rhyme or reason. What's the reason for these to exists, besides to raise funds for whorever is selling these?
etatester 2 hours ago [-]
The cat is out of the bag. TLDs are now the domains of the rich. Why not have .taylorswift? It's just 250k https://gtlds.fyi/names/taylorswift
As for the rest, meh, these could be "I have an idea for a domain" but the domain costs 250k
pasc1878 2 hours ago [-]
How many of these are companies that learnt from the 1990s and made sure they registered their own name/tradmarks etc rather than having to buy them off scalpers, even though they might have no plans to use them?
sixtyj 2 hours ago [-]
Every possible word can become a TLD :)
ASalazarMX 10 minutes ago [-]
It's like they found a money-making glitch. Insert a few new words into a list, make millions!
If they think TLDs need more variety, why not allow them to be anything already (save a few reserved TLDs)? That's what TLDs are starting to look like anyway.
fooqux 2 hours ago [-]
Why limit yourself to just words? I'm hoping to get one of the single-letter domains on the new abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz TLD if I can afford it.
ASalazarMX 8 minutes ago [-]
2036: Guys, read my newsletter at ASalazar.<MEXICO_FLAG>.<SMILEY>!
MarsIronPI 2 hours ago [-]
Am I the only one who's not a fan of these new, longer TLDs? IMO TLDs should be two or three characters. I'm not sure why I feel this way, but there's something unwieldy about a TLD like .cooking.
jnettome 2 hours ago [-]
What we really need is one char TLDs so we bring back WWW
eg: www.x
ronsor 20 minutes ago [-]
www.x would be owned by Elon. Don't give him ideas.
ocdtrekkie 2 hours ago [-]
In theory it can be shorter. Imagine good.cooking is shorter than goodcooking.com
But every one of these plays with all sorts of collisions of user expectations. "word.cloud.microsoft" is one of those URLs that will never look right to me, but is now a corporate staple.
OutOfHere 2 hours ago [-]
2 to 4 chars is a good range.
arccy 42 minutes ago [-]
imagine it were shorter... like 0 characters.
this is what the new gTLDs are.
OutOfHere 2 hours ago [-]
Why are these TLDs so tightly bound to a specific organization? Why can't their registration be more open? Keeping them so locked down makes them useless. Or am I misunderstanding something?
majorchord 1 hours ago [-]
I thought TLDs were sponsored/registered by corporations, and hence had a say in what can be registered on that TLD and by whom.
input_sh 31 minutes ago [-]
> and hence had a say in what can be registered on that TLD and by whom.
Not quite, assuming we're not talking about .brand, they have to make them available for purchase by the general public. However, they do get to dictate prices.
I don't want to see any new domains, we rely on the domain as a source of security -- I know, it sucks, but it's all we have, to look at that browser address bar and confirm it is really mybank.com that is asking for your login details, and each time someone adds a TLD, you have the risk of mybank.us, or mybank.info or mybank.bank confusing users. Enough already with the TLD.
sneak 1 hours ago [-]
The auctioning off of the GTLD space for private gain is one of the most egregious and offensive public-private wealth transfer grafts of our century.
Sure if AirBnb wants to administer .airbnb and charge a lot, whatever.
But `.bit` domains should be some bargain basement price if so many people want to run it.
.cmo/.con are particularly egregious
I don't understand how some of them can be granted to just one company when they are a "global" namespace, and then not allowed by the public to purchase or use.
I'm not talking about ones that are the name of a well known huge company that is unlikely to disappear.
Seems like this is the case for a few domains. .book, .author, and others got bought by Amazon who hasn’t really done anything with them?
PS - Your Source link is a 404.
Don't you dare, Coffee Danger LLC
I am NOT going to use .home.arpa.
https://www.wired.com/story/icann-top-level-domains-meow/
Like `.link` is pretty cool but it's expensive because one of those personal-link-inbio companies created it and wants to cash in on it.
Just from scanning these, maybe:
* .air
* .bit
* .hub
* .iam
* .index (long but I love how universal it is)
* .lab
* .log
* .pod
* .port
* .self is really interesting, wonder if that would take off
* .sys
* .zen
like .playstation or .airbnb or .nike
None of this seem to have any rhyme or reason. What's the reason for these to exists, besides to raise funds for whorever is selling these?
As for the rest, meh, these could be "I have an idea for a domain" but the domain costs 250k
If they think TLDs need more variety, why not allow them to be anything already (save a few reserved TLDs)? That's what TLDs are starting to look like anyway.
eg: www.x
But every one of these plays with all sorts of collisions of user expectations. "word.cloud.microsoft" is one of those URLs that will never look right to me, but is now a corporate staple.
this is what the new gTLDs are.
Not quite, assuming we're not talking about .brand, they have to make them available for purchase by the general public. However, they do get to dictate prices.
https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/application-rounds/round...