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

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

[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

.moon / .nasa / .usa / .cali

you can check if domain is tld here https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt

wank.er

I got ideas.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago
[–] nightlily@leminal.space 6 points 15 hours ago

.fedi seems obvious given where we are.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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 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.

[–] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Hmm....a troll domain.

"httpscolonslashslashslashdotdotslash"

[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 day 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 21 points 1 day ago

.md already exists for Moldova

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Linux shebang logic looking pretty genius.

[–] civ@lemmy.civl.cc 9 points 22 hours ago

.dash for Morse code enjoyers

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

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

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[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 day 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 48 points 1 day ago (2 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.

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[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

.dot

I'd love to have dot.dot.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Finally can register

clownpenis.fart

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day 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 22 hours ago (1 children)

.er is already the country code for Eritrea

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 11 hours ago

Microsoft should be the owner of the slop domain.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] Naich@piefed.world 6 points 1 day ago
[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day 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 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 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).

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

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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[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago
[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day 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 28 points 1 day ago

.fedi for Fediverse Project

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago

Ruin windows search even more? I like your thinking

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  • .hell
  • .nope
  • .bruh
  • .con (to be used exclusively for scams)
  • .duck
  • .dot
[–] BlackCat@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] lnxtx@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

no that's for photoshop dummy

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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