[GTALUG] TLDs

[Nick Accad]

Someone should register example.eg



On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 10:28 Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 8:46 AM Giles Orr via talk <talk at 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-green was sold as a way for companies to demonstrate eco-awareness
> (think "exxon.green"), some would call this greenwashing. Originally there
> were some standards required from anyone wanting a dot-green domain but
> those are gone and anyone can get one.
>
> Dot-black is intended to be used by an identified cultural community,
> similarly to dot-gay or dot-mormon.
>
> 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.
>
> Indeed, there are many countries that have allowed marketers to peddle
> their TLDs like generics. The Columbian TLD, dot-CO, has been used by
> GoDaddy and others as a fallback to those who can't get what they want
> under dot-com. Others have famously brought revenue to tiny jurisdictions
> such as Tuvalu (dot-TV) and French Micronesia (dot-FM). And how many people
> using bit.ly know that some of the revenue from that company funnels back
> to Libya?
>
> I'm curious: what's your pick for weirdest TLD?  What's the strangest one
>> you've actually seen in use?
>>
>
> I think my favourites are dot-wtf and dot-sucks, though neither is living
> up to potential.
>
> Weirdest to me is dot-cat because it has nothing to do with felines but is
> instead used for Catalonia.
>
> - Evan
>
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