Spyke
BoofStroke
sh.itjust.works

I believe more Tlds is generally stupid. But instead of all the protect the children bullshit, I'd be good with a .kids tld that requires certification to own. Then you can just whitelist that for your precious crotch goblins and leave the rest of us alone.

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eleijeepreply
piefed.social

That's a good suggestion, but unfortunately age verification is not about protecting the kids, it's about removing anonymity from online platforms and making sure that we can't exercise our right to speech online without risking government harassment.

Oh yeah and the advertisers don't want to pay to advertise to bots.

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ilmagicoreply
lemmy.world

The idea would be to provide a "protect the kids" alternative that doesn't require global surveillance and privacy violations, so the next time they try to justify another rights violation to "protect the kids" they can be pointed to the sane alternative, and (hopefully) they'll run out of excuses.

I mean, one would wish it'll play out like that, though I have some doubts. Somehow excuses seem to be always found.

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Default Usernamereply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

They'll just start using the other classic excuse of "preventing terrorism" instead in the case that "protect the children" no longer works.

If you're against mass surveillance, you must be pro-terrorism, right?

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Alvaro
lemmy.blahaj.zone
  • .md
  • .tar
  • .gz
  • .iso
  • .lnk
  • .txt
  • .exe
  • .mp4
  • .mp3
  • .jpg
  • .png

I want to watch the world burn like it did on the creation of the .zip TLD

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raldone01
lemmy.world

I think we really need a .docx. Why not do all of the classic office file extensions?

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edgemaster72
lemmy.world

.ope : for all your midwestern typo needs
.doom : all domains registered in this TLD must have a playable version of Doom somewhere on the site
.ram : about as price effective as buying actual RAM rn. I call dibs on more.ram so I can have a downloads page at download.more.ram

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owenfromcanada
lemmy.ca
  • .hell
  • .nope
  • .bruh
  • .con (to be used exclusively for scams)
  • .duck
  • .dot
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Archerreply
lemmy.world

US registrants must fill out the illegal income box in their taxes

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reddig33
lemmy.world

I’d pick going back to .edu, .gov, .mil, .com, .org, .net — and actually enforcing their meanings. None of this cash grab bullshit where a company has to buy the TLD for their company name over and over.

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fruitycoderreply
sh.itjust.works

Honestly it is pretty silly it's still like that. Are the subdomains enforced in other countries?

The other option is expand .gov .mil for all UN nations and enforce country sub domains (ie .us.gov and .md.gov).

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Scrollonereply
feddit.it

Italy used to have .gov.it and all Comune could register their own, but now only the central government can use gov.it

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fruitycoderreply
sh.itjust.works

I think I'm biased towards .it.gov as an option because then you could have smaller orgs of a country fall under it

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tinfoilhatreply
lemmy.ml

I was more concerned about slurs of the XBox Live circa 2010 variety

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Tanoh
lemmy.world

.er .db

All two letter TLDs are exclusive to countries. So unless you make a country called Ergostan and Dbaseistan and get them internationally recognised you are out of luck. However, if you manage you don't have to pay the fee!

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Scrollonereply
feddit.it

Damn, if colonies were still a thing, Italy would be the empire of domain hacks, with .it, .er and .so

Edit: before you think I'm pro-colonization, my post was just a historically accurate joke

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LordMayor
piefed.social
  • .slop
  • .clancker
  • .gooner
  • .moe

Fuck it, just give them their own space.

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Chais
sh.itjust.works

.antifa and .profa so we don't have to guess where the company/project/person/etc. stands.

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CameronDevreply
programming.dev

Unless the domain registry is going to research each and every applicant, you'll still have to guess. I own a .uk domain despite never having visited Ukraine United Kingdom.

Edit: not sure why I was confused about the .UK TLD, fixed.

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CameronDevreply
programming.dev

I have no idea why I got that stuck in my head wrong. Still, my point stands, anyone can buy any domain at any time. Ownership of a domain implies nothing.

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CameronDevreply
programming.dev

Care to explain? Anyone can buy any domain, and host anything they want on it. Domains don't guarantee anything.

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Chaisreply
sh.itjust.works

It wasn't serious. Just like .dot or .slop it's more a joke than a serious suggestion. You wouldn't seriously expect "AI" companies to dutifully buy .slop domains for their nonsense. Just like I wouldn't seriously expect right wing parties, companies that support them or are "apolitical" or "undecided" to buy .profa domains.
But it would be lovely of them.

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Em Adespotonreply
lemmy.ca

Actually, you’re on to something there; have the TLD represent the license agreement to access ANYTHING served over it.

.gpl .lgpl .agpl .mpl .mit .bsd .apache .epl .cddl .cc0 .ccby .ccbysa .ccbynd .ccbync .ccbyncsa .ccbyncnd

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Em Adespotonreply
lemmy.ca

Good luck restricting it for this purpose… but as you’ll see, there isn’t actually a creative commons license that is just “CC” anyway, so that wouldn’t be an issue.

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sp3ctr4l
lemmy.dbzer0.com

.crom

Crom.crom

... It offers nothing.

Also .slash, because chaos must reign.

Ohh!

How about .— for all the LLMs to create their own deepweb on?

We can just call the realworld version of the Blackwall the EmWall, fittingly more stupid and annoyingly named than anything in actual cyberpunk, as seems to be the writing style for our timeline.

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Corhenreply
lemmy.world

No, it's slash dot dot slash, but one of them is a period, and ones a backslash

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hissing meerkat
sh.itjust.works

.crimes for cataloguing the crimes of the corresponding websites. E.g microsoft.crimes or x.crimes or whitehouse.crimes

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shirro
aussie.zone

I would take the old ones back from for profits, put them in the hands of a non-profit and keep them at a sensible price. All this land speculation is bullshit and contributes no value to domain users - its all a get rich scheme for a small number of insiders.

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njordomir
lemmy.world

.fart because decades of growing up haven't quite cured my potty humor.

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Em Adespoton
lemmy.ca

I’d pick .

And then people can register whatever TLD they want on top of that.

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TeddEreply
lemmy.world

ICANN says thanks, but that one is theirs, and they are also happy to let people register whatever they want (but for say … $227K a pop)

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kalkulat
lemmy.world

I would again recommend that anyone doing online marketing and/or tracking be legally confined to the .COM TLD. Severe penalties for corporate abuse would include removal of all internet access. Less severe penalties might include a confiscation of double of all profits made outside of .COM during a deliberate infraction.

There would be no cost for any TLD's outside of .COM; all regulation and legal costs to be paid-for by .COM - users.

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eleijeep
piefed.social

Why not remove gTLDs altogether? With the exception of country-specific TLDs, they no longer serve a purpose.

Adding all of these worthless extensions that nobody uses just exposes how pointless the whole system is.

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x00z
lemmy.world

Lmao. $227k just to get heard. Looks like it's time for a .227k domain.

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MonkderVierte
lemmy.zip

Another protocol instead of that historically grown hodgepodge and the DNS domain grift.

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Encrypt-Keeper
lemmy.world

It’s important to note that two letter domains are generally reserved for country codes and would require a country for them to be provisioned.

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SkaveRatreply
discuss.tchncs.de

Time for Oracle to use an army of their lawyers to sue the Oracle country into existence and register .db

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