Fantastic read, thank you. If .woof someday becomes available I'm using it! It's still a little jarring to me that TLDs with more than 3 characters exist. It's kind of the same as file types! I...
Fantastic read, thank you. If .woof someday becomes available I'm using it!
It's still a little jarring to me that TLDs with more than 3 characters exist. It's kind of the same as file types! I know rationally that they were always meant to be full words and the shortenings were necessary due to technical constraints that we don't have today, but like, .txt feels so much more right than .text, doesn't it? Or .exe instead of .executible? It's just so iconic. I think most people agree with me, since even of the more new-fangled TLDs, the popular ones seem to be 3 characters (.app, .fun, and so on).
Anyway, if I could unilaterally bring a TLD about, I would love to lift the ban on .www. I know they disallowed it since it would probably cause a lot of confusion...but c'mon, symmetry, man!
(Also maybe .furry to throw them a bone. The internet only runs cus of 'em!)
I recently learned there's a .monster because a Nitter instance uses it. That one really surprised me. Honestly feels odd to see actual words or common acronyms as TLDs. Not sure if I'll ever get...
I recently learned there's a .monster because a Nitter instance uses it. That one really surprised me.
Honestly feels odd to see actual words or common acronyms as TLDs. Not sure if I'll ever get used to that. (Though if we have actual words anyway, how the heck is .meow not already a thing?? This is the internet! Cats are like the main export!!)
Full words in URLs feel like the name or descriptor, while the TLD has been an acronym since the early days. Writing out "youabsolute.monster" flat out feels like I'm leaving out a part of the...
Full words in URLs feel like the name or descriptor, while the TLD has been an acronym since the early days. Writing out "youabsolute.monster" flat out feels like I'm leaving out a part of the URL.
I can't get used to it either.
Then again, I got used to no longer having to type www. real quick so who knows how long this will take me.
I don’t know if it’s common here, but I wish the title was less editorialized. This is about ICANN adding new top-level domains, maybe, because they’ve received applications but haven’t accepted...
I don’t know if it’s common here, but I wish the title was less editorialized. This is about ICANN adding new top-level domains, maybe, because they’ve received applications but haven’t accepted any yet. A full searchable list is at https://newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/applications
I often change the titles of the links I make here, but this one isn't editorialized in my opinion. Just a humorous take on potential new domains and the primary people interviewed in the article,...
I often change the titles of the links I make here, but this one isn't editorialized in my opinion. Just a humorous take on potential new domains and the primary people interviewed in the article, so it stayed.
While it has a lot of good information in it, it isn't a serious article, so humor in the title isn't taking anything away from it in my opinion, so I posted it as is.
Fantastic read, thank you. If .woof someday becomes available I'm using it!
It's still a little jarring to me that TLDs with more than 3 characters exist. It's kind of the same as file types! I know rationally that they were always meant to be full words and the shortenings were necessary due to technical constraints that we don't have today, but like, .txt feels so much more right than .text, doesn't it? Or .exe instead of .executible? It's just so iconic. I think most people agree with me, since even of the more new-fangled TLDs, the popular ones seem to be 3 characters (.app, .fun, and so on).
Anyway, if I could unilaterally bring a TLD about, I would love to lift the ban on .www. I know they disallowed it since it would probably cause a lot of confusion...but c'mon, symmetry, man!
(Also maybe .furry to throw them a bone. The internet only runs cus of 'em!)
I recently learned there's a .monster because a Nitter instance uses it. That one really surprised me.
Honestly feels odd to see actual words or common acronyms as TLDs. Not sure if I'll ever get used to that. (Though if we have actual words anyway, how the heck is .meow not already a thing?? This is the internet! Cats are like the main export!!)
Full words in URLs feel like the name or descriptor, while the TLD has been an acronym since the early days. Writing out "youabsolute.monster" flat out feels like I'm leaving out a part of the URL.
I can't get used to it either.
Then again, I got used to no longer having to type www. real quick so who knows how long this will take me.
I don’t know if it’s common here, but I wish the title was less editorialized. This is about ICANN adding new top-level domains, maybe, because they’ve received applications but haven’t accepted any yet. A full searchable list is at https://newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/applications
I often change the titles of the links I make here, but this one isn't editorialized in my opinion. Just a humorous take on potential new domains and the primary people interviewed in the article, so it stayed.
While it has a lot of good information in it, it isn't a serious article, so humor in the title isn't taking anything away from it in my opinion, so I posted it as is.