On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 10:28 AM Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 8:46 AM Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
For example: .black and .green are apparently "cool" colours, because their registration cost is in the $50-$60 range.
Think like a marketer. Because it's marketers who are peddling domains as branding tools, and choosing which gTLDs to create.
Dot-black is intended to be used by an identified cultural community, similarly to dot-gay or dot-mormon.
Originally, the intent for .black wasn't for the black community, but about "sophistication". You can see it in the .black FAQs.
Sometimes there is confusion. The dot-la domain is actually the country TLD for Laos, but has been marketed first as a Latino community TLD, and when that didn't work the marketers shifted focus and it's now being peddled as the TLD for Los Angeles <https://www.la/>. There might even be Laotians using it too.
I remember there used to be quite a few .TO (Tonga) domains for Toronto based businesses. Haven't noticed too many lately.
I'm curious: what's your pick for weirdest TLD? What's the strangest one
you've actually seen in use?
Afilias registered a few TLDs when they opened it up. I thought one of the
weirdest was .kim, which is specifically targeted towards Korean people with the "Kim" family name. I don't think there are any others like that, although, my brother-in-law's last name is Pink.
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