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How does a single company go about buying an entire TLD? Doesn't seem very "forward looking" for ICANN. Pretty soon it will turn out like our .com issue which all "premium" domains already purchased and/or squatted on.

As an aside, I really don't like all these "cutsy" TLD's that are showing up. To me, whenever I see a .info or .biz, I'm already wary of the link... now there's things like .ninja, .technology, .academy, .bargains, .bid, .build, .builders, etc etc etc...

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"Weary" as in tired of seeing them? Or "Wary" as in "Not sure I want to click on that link"?

> "Weary" as in tired of seeing them? Or "Wary" as in "Not sure I want to click on that link"?

Both?

Ok, I can see that. Some days, I feel the same way. "Oh jeeze, not those guys again!"

.info and .biz have both been around for 14 years, so they're not exactly just starting to show up.

I think that's what they're saying: those two have been around for ages and they're still seen as sketchy, so the newer, weirder ones are even more off-putting by comparison.

A lot of that may have to do with all the infomercials that used .biz and .info. Country specific tlds have been doing fine. A company with the marketing resources to brand their tld could do well here.

> A lot of that may have to do with all the infomercials that used .biz and .info.

Maybe true, but things like .academy just reek of potential scammers/fly-by-night operations that could not qualify for a real .edu.

Things like .lawyer also feel more inclined towards "ambulance chasers" rather than real law offices with money to get the .com they wanted.

> Things like .lawyer also feel more inclined towards "ambulance chasers" rather than real law offices with money to get the .com they wanted.

I dunno, I think lots of real law firms will prefer, as one example, the new .llc or .llp domains (which Google applied for, don't think they've been awarded yet) to .com; having your domain name being more exactly your business name has value.

It depends on the context. Info and biz have crappy associations with fly by night companies. Imagine this:

facebook.app -> redirects to proper app in Google/Apple app store. (Since the stores have horrible search experiences.)

amazon.app

zillow.app

instagram.app

I would really like to know what the deal is with .blue and .red. Most of the other ones I can kind of see. Some seem to be just renamings of ones we already have (like .academy vs. .edu). But just a color?

.blue and .red? Do you mean .white and .orange?

There is also .black.

Oh hell, there's even a TLD for a specific university now!

Namecheap has 27 pages of new gTLD's[1]... oh my....

[1] https://www.namecheap.com/domains/new-tlds/explore.aspx

pokemon.red and pokemon.blue are literally the only uses I can come up with for those tld.

http://im.blue/dabadeedabadie

"La red" is Spanish for "the web", as in the internet.

Red is also a very symbolic and emotion-invoking color. It could be used in many contexts.

I wonder how long it'll take for the general public to actually recognise those as valid things they can type into their browser.

There was a sports event on TV recently and you could see a billboard ad in the background for a while with <location>.travel as main focus/ text on it, can't remember the exact one.

I asked my sister - who is fairly adept in basic pc use - if she knew that this was a URL. She didn't and replied "without .at? or .com? That's confusing."

"How does a single company go about buying an entire TLD? Doesn't seem very "forward looking" for ICANN."

Was part of the process from the start actually. Been discussed for years and years.

At least this has enabled some regional TLDs to finally be approved that should've been years ago (.scot, .wales/.cymru, etc.).

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