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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