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Queeres Projekt will Top-Level-Domain .meow registrieren lassen | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/ICANN-Domainvergabe-Queere-Initiative-will-meow-registrieren-lassen-11141311.html #dotMEOW #TLD #TopLevelDomain

Queeres Projekt will Top-Level-Domain .meow registrieren lassen

Die gemeinnützige Organisation dotMeow will eine eigene gTLD bei der ICANN beantragen. Zur Finanzierung hat die Stiftung eine Crowdsourcing-Kampagne gestartet.

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Just scraping the #IANA assigned TLDs and the corresponding documented #nameservers. What I don't get is, why so many companies apply for a #TLD. It's not particularly cheap to apply for one of those ngTLDs, yet compared to the company sizes, it's probably pennies. Is it a prestige investment? Is it a digital resource to grab, before someone else does it?

Other than #Microsoft, #Google, and #AWS, I've rarely seen any ngTLD representing a corporation's name to actually be used in practice.

Does anyone in the #infosec community share their view?

#askfedi #askmasto #askinfosec #DNS

Wow. Ich wollte #Tee bestellen, aber der Händler erlaubt nur #Email|s von #TLD .de und .com 😶
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Who is old enough to remember when 25 .info domains per person was free for the 1st year back in 2004? 

These days single .info domain costs in the area of 30-40 EUR/year 

#domains #tld

Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension * TorrentFreak

Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has lost control over its main domain name. Annas-archive.org was suspended and put on serverhold status.

@gytisrepecka @da5nsy OFC!

  • I'm the last one questioning that.

I hope that @dotmeow can offer #domains on at-cost basis for #members / users, because once a #gTLD is setup and running the cost of infrastruture to keep it up - even if it were €10k+ per month - is miniscule when divided by the amount of users and registrations.

  • I do however hope that .meow will take lessions and have fundamental policy changes: Banning #DomainParking and #DomainSquatting as well as #auctions of highly-sought-after #domains, because it is a net negative for #users, the #TLD and the rest of the internet if big companies can occupy large swaths of the internet just to commit "#AssetDenial" under dubious pretenses (#Trademark) to bad (anti-competitive) behaviour.

Having domains that are not actually being used or being merely registered for resale being repossessed and registrars of said domains banned would be something I'd love.

@dotmeow @da5nsy granted, #OpenNIC does also resolve the #ICANN #rootzone, and in fact they actually went out of their way to cancel a comflicthig #TLD in their rootzone...

  • The problem is the concentration at ICANN and the ones that tried to fight that #monopoly legally - #NameDotSpace - seem to have gone bankrupt on that endeavour...

Obviously you'd not do a #Kickstarter campaign and try to raise $$$$$$$ in funds if you didn't want to get included in ICANNs rootzone, which paywall the hell out of gTLD applications...

If you'd like to learn why Domain Connect shall be on your radar if you are a registrar or a TLD registry, take a look at my guest post at APNIC Blog:
https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/24/domain-connect-a-missing-piece-in-the-dns-toolbox/

#domainconnect #renewal #tld #dns #domains #registry

Domain Connect: A missing piece in the DNS toolbox | APNIC Blog

Guest Post: Domain renewal rates directly correlate with usage. Domain Connect creates a standardized way for service providers and DNS providers to communicate. Users complete setup in seconds with just a few clicks.

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居然有 .christmas 這個 TLD

Lobsters 上看到「ssh tiny.christmas」這篇,倒不是效果怎麼樣,而是居然有 .christmas 這個 TLD 可以用,看了一下這個網域是今年註冊起來玩的: Updated Date: 2025-12-23T19:25:29.0Z Creation Date: 2025-12-23T19:25:25.0Z Registry Expiry Date: 2026-12-23T23:59:59.

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