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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 84 points 3 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 50 points 3 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 8 points 3 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 65 points 3 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 25 points 3 weeks ago

.md already exists for Moldova

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago

Linux shebang logic looking pretty genius.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 30 points 3 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

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 29 points 3 weeks ago

.fedi for Fediverse Project

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 27 points 3 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 29 points 3 weeks ago

Ruin windows search even more? I like your thinking

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 23 points 3 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 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
  • .hell
  • .nope
  • .bruh
  • .con (to be used exclusively for scams)
  • .duck
  • .dot
[–] BlackCat@piefed.social 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago
[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

.dot

I'd love to have dot.dot.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 12 points 3 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 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

.er is already the country code for Eritrea

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[–] lnxtx@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] civ@lemmy.civl.cc 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

.dash for Morse code enjoyers

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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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

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[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

.agpl

only for agpl compatible software

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 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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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] kn33@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago
[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
  • .slop
  • .clancker
  • .gooner
  • .moe

Fuck it, just give them their own space.

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 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 wall 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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[–] nightlily@leminal.space 9 points 3 weeks ago

.fedi seems obvious given where we are.

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 8 points 3 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.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] BlackCat@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

.milk
.polka
.weinermobile
.supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[–] Naich@piefed.world 6 points 3 weeks ago
[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago
[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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wank.er

I got ideas.

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