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Do you have ideas for TLDs? Here's some of mine, not sure if any of these exist already:

  • .plus
  • .now
  • .ent (short for enterprise)
  • .one
  • .er (for domain hacks, don't get any ideas)
  • .db
  • .source
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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Lmao. $227k just to get heard. Looks like it's time for a .227k domain.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

.ent would quickly be picked up by the cannabis enthusiasts of course

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

Time for Oracle to use an army of their lawyers to sue the Oracle country into existence and register .db

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 102 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 1 week ago (2 children)
  • .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

[–] ScrotusMaximus@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago

.md already exists for Moldova

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

Linux shebang logic looking pretty genius.

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think we really need a .docx. Why not do all of the classic office file extensions?

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago

Ruin windows search even more? I like your thinking

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We have .com but where are .exe and .bat?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

We also have .zip but no .rar, .ace, .gz, .bz, .7z, .xz or even .tar.

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

.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

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  • .hell
  • .nope
  • .bruh
  • .con (to be used exclusively for scams)
  • .duck
  • .dot
[–] BlackCat@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago

.fedi for Fediverse Project

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

.gov and .mil should disappear. The US can use .gov.us like any other country.

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

i think we're pretty much past that era, honestly.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • www.free.luigi

  • www.mama.luigi

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

.dot

I'd love to have dot.dot.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

.slash
.backslash

[–] lnxtx@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

./
..
.https://www/
.dot-com
.enter

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

I was more concerned about slurs of the XBox Live circa 2010 variety

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[–] nightlily@leminal.space 13 points 1 week ago

.fedi seems obvious given where we are.

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

.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!

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[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  • .slop
  • .clancker
  • .gooner
  • .moe

Fuck it, just give them their own space.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] kn33@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago
[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

.agpl

only for agpl compatible software

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Actually, you’re on to something there; have the TLD represent the license agreement to access ANYTHING served over it.

.gpl .lgpl .agpl .mpl .mit .bsd .apache .epl .cddl .cc0 .ccby .ccbysa .ccbynd .ccbync .ccbyncsa .ccbyncnd

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[–] civ@lemmy.civl.cc 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

.dash for Morse code enjoyers

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago
[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

.antifa and .profa so we don't have to guess where the company/project/person/etc. stands.

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.crimes for cataloguing the crimes of the corresponding websites. E.g microsoft.crimes or x.crimes or whitehouse.crimes

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago
[–] BlackCat@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

.milk
.polka
.weinermobile
.supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

.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.

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[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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