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11mo ago

kno.wled.ge

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Aside from the fact that it's owned by alphabet, what's so bad about .xyz?
- Insanely bad reputation, one hosting provider decided to sell .XYZ domains for 1 dollar per year.
  This resulted in people with malicious intent buying up domains en masse to use it for malware delivery/phishing/whatever.
  
  I didn't realize that. I use a .xyz for a lot of my personal stuff and didn't realize this. I wanted basically .website ... i didnt want .com or .org or anything with tld that meant something, so xyz felt nice. Also, the domain I wanted with any popular tld was insanely expensive and i got my xyz for cheap when it was brand new (not for 1 dollar though).
  Maybe I need to look into new domains, but I probably will just stick with it since its primarily for personal use anyway.
- Alphabet uses it for abc.xyz because it's funny, but the .xyz registrar is the British Team Internet/CentralNic.
  Just like how they use youtu.be and goo.gl, but Alphabet doesn't own Belgium or Greenland either. At least, not yet.

.dev?

What's so bad about the Cook Islands corporations?

I personally like .dev and .studio
- I looked at a .dev domain today but its just too expensive imo. I dont have that much just to throw it at a name I like.
  
  What provider? Mine off of porkbun was 30$ for 3 years at 14$ a year after discount and I managed to snag a relatively personal & unique name

.wtf is my favourite

if your website has .gg in the name it is 99% likely a phishing site
what is wrong with .club and .cool? is it because they are words?

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