On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:45:15 -0400 Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
This isn't directly Linux-related, but it's a topic that's probably of interest to many on this list. https://tld-list.com/tlds-from-a-z That shows a list of all top-level domain names - which is interesting enough. But if you click on any given TLD, it shows you who owns it, the intended purpose, and the pricing ... not just the registration price and the renewal price now, but over time. Being as fascinated by this as I am requires a combination of a couple different geeky inclinations. I own several domains and also have often registered them for my work - but I'm also fascinated by words and ideas, and by the demand for them (here translated into dollar values for domain names). For example: .black and .green are apparently "cool" colours, because their registration cost is in the $50-$60 range. Other colours aren't as cool - eg. .pink which sells for ~$15. And some colours (eg. .yellow) don't exist at all. I guess no one thought they could make money off that domain.
it is all about someone actually doing the marketing and work, with enough marketing anything can become valuable and even useful. even .pink although... .pinky would have been cooler! brain.pinky would be my registration :)
And this is before we get into the incredible and absurd diversity of domain names. .ninja anyone? (Its registration price is very low, but renewal costs more.) I could of course register gilesorr.recipes for all that cooking blogging that I do ...
hahahaha, will not help you... your content will be stolen, re-worked and then your own original content will be flagged as duplicate and even ai generated, even if your recipe(s) were created by you from scratch and the abusive power will simply index gilesorr.recipes as low value rubbish
I'm curious: what's your pick for weirdest TLD? What's the strangest one you've actually seen in use?
strange is a matter of perspective and policy and sometimes truth is way way stranger than fiction. (and also very much directly related to language and culture) for myself, something unthinkable and very bad to just utter would be the word: machimba. For most of you this word does not even hold any meaning. for Spanish speakers it may simply be a word that refers to fruit. In some regions of Africa it may also be your neighbors last name :) so, at the writing of this drivel, there also is no machimba.com even... and it seems to exist only in one sub tld space but if I were to say or type something which you would choose to take offense at, this would be an entirely different case and you would 'feel' offended or may choose to become offended, for example: to native english speakers merde is not so bad as the word shit (and vice versa, of course. in my fav TLD, .me for example: balls.me is apparently very cool and cunts.me seems to be okay also similar to dick.me - but fuck.me is simply not allowed as that is offensive. Andre