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. 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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