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Do you have ideas for TLDs? Here's some of mine, not sure if any of these exist already:

  • .plus
  • .now
  • .ent (short for enterprise)
  • .one
  • .er (for domain hacks, don't get any ideas)
  • .db
  • .source
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[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 112 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 66 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 90 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
  • .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

[–] ScrotusMaximus@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 weeks ago

.md already exists for Moldova

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 weeks ago

Linux shebang logic looking pretty genius.

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 weeks ago

Ruin windows search even more? I like your thinking

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We have .com but where are .exe and .bat?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

We also have .zip but no .rar, .ace, .gz, .bz, .7z, .xz or even .tar.

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago

.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

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  • .hell
  • .nope
  • .bruh
  • .con (to be used exclusively for scams)
  • .duck
  • .dot
[–] BlackCat@piefed.social 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 weeks ago

.fedi for Fediverse Project

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

.gov and .mil should disappear. The US can use .gov.us like any other country.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

i think we're pretty much past that era, honestly.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
  • www.free.luigi

  • www.mama.luigi

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

.dot

I'd love to have dot.dot.

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[–] lnxtx@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's already .ps for west bank and Gaza strip

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

./
..
.https://www/
.dot-com
.enter

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 16 points 2 weeks ago

.fedi seems obvious given where we are.

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

.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!

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

.er is already the country code for Eritrea

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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  • .slop
  • .clancker
  • .gooner
  • .moe

Fuck it, just give them their own space.

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[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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

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[–] civ@lemmy.civl.cc 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

.dash for Morse code enjoyers

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[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

.agpl

only for agpl compatible software

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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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[–] BlackCat@piefed.social 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

.milk
.polka
.weinermobile
.supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] kn33@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago
[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, the world needs .pedo for the Epstein class

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[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

.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.

[–] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I would vote for .slash just so we can get slashdot.slash.

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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Naich@piefed.world 6 points 2 weeks ago
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