Most "memorable" domains are an outright waste of money. Especially ones that are more cute or curious than memorable. Plus, remember that you can't own a domain, you're just renting it. Miss the rent and it goes to someone else, possibly a rival. In the era of first location-aware search engines and now AI-powered queries (not to mention QR codes and URL shorteners), domains are simply an inferior way to be found on the Internet. These days the non-vanity value of most domains seems to be shrinking as they're simply less necessary. But I guess the vanity factor cannot be dismissed. - Evan On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 11:00 AM Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I was deeply disappointed that I couldn't buy "cloa.ca". Whoever did buy it isn't even using that disgusting name yet. Not that I had any particular use in mind myself ... It's very hard to come up with words that end in "ca."
Wow - no, it's not all that bad:
`grep 'ca$' /usr/share/dict/words`
Turns up 61 results, and who wouldn't want to register sciati.ca or eroti.ca (note that I haven't checked if these are registered). mec.ca _is_ registered - to Mountain Equipment Co-op, a company many of you are probably familiar with. Sadly (but unsurprisingly), both antarcti.ca and repli.ca aren't available.
On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 09:44, Scott Allen <mlxxxp@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 08:45, Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
wrote:
What's the strangest one you've actually seen in use?
Not strange or a weird TLD but I always notice the sites that use the TLD as the last letters of words they want to spell, instead of the intended purpose of the TLD, for example https://www.YouTu.be
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