konaltWhy do Lemmy instances have such obscure TLDs?
MuddybulldogMore desirable domains available and significantly lower costs are a couple of reasons that come to mind…
BriongloidI got lemmy.cfd for $1
willyaBecause we feel like it.
flathead
ZarxraxA ton of new tlds became available a few years ago. A lot of newer sites use them, not just Lemmy servers. Older sites that have already been established for a while will obviously be using the standard endings, so if you compare lemmy sites vs well-known sites that have been around for a while, then that’s the reason.
i tried going to lemmy.com and it worked! it forwards to lenm.ee
lohrunI went with .boo for mine due to cost and the fact that I’ve never seen it as a TLD before. There are a lot of interesting new ones out there now, might as well use this opportunity to try it out. (Also as an instance admin I’m not trying to make any money off of running an instance so keeping costs as low as possible is ideal)
I’m still waiting on a .ninja. The only site I ever saw with one was basically just serving an animation with ninjas.
I haven’t seen this one. Cool!
estynewer tlds are cheaper and you can get cooler names
ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝There’s a few reasons, as well as the ones listed:
- .ml is a Mali domain which was being given away, so a lot of people snatched one up. This is now coming back to bite them on the ass as Mali want them all back.
- Some are run by the same team, like the .world ones who have lemmy, mastodon and I think calckey. I don’t think the same goes for all of them (but it may do - the .world ones are just the most high profile examples), .social just makes sense for a Fediverse social media instance.
Just to clear something up, CalcKey is now known as Firefish and they’re run by completely different people.
kopper [they/them]calckey.world (which runs firefish. firefish.world was afaik taken before they became aware of the rebranding) is ran by the same person as mastodon.world and lemmy.world, i assume that’s what they’re referring to
Well, if you’re going to be technical, they run a firefish instance. not the main firefish instance (which is .social).
so when I said, “it’s not the same person running it” - the flagship instance, if you will, is .social. the main people coding it are on .social (afaik). .world is just another instance.
so both of us are right…kindasorta, it depends how you define “what is a calckey server”.
Starting in 2012 ICANN started introducing a bunch of new ones partly so there's more addresses and also so that the names can better express the purpose of the site.
Also a potential for spam, unfortunately. Some of the newer TDLs are simply blocked by a lot of sysadmins due to potential for spam and fraud.
Am sysadmin but pretty much all spam I see is from smaller companies hijacked Office365-accounts or gmx.com/net/se/de/etc.
Cos its considered cool and people follow the herd.
For techbros a while ago an .io domain was a thing because its sounds like i/o and projects an image you are tech literate.
Alvaro@[email protected] also it is much harder to find the same .com available
honestly .io is still a good one, but it’s expensive.
I was just looking for a funny name and came up with waste-of.space
It is 3x more expensive than a .be (my countries TLD) but I like it.
You’d have to come up with a pun that’s ends in be to change, and that’s just not OK :D
Waste-of.be just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Bumble.be or haram.be already taken?
let-it.be
Not available anymore. But funny :)
or-not2.be
This one is available!
lemm.ee is on the Estonian ccTLD because the person that runs it is in Estonia.
TheGuardianWolfI’m literally on .net, should be a classic
JackGreenEarthCan a Lemmy instance be a subdomain?
Yes, sh.itjust.works is an example
kateYes :)
MouseWithBeerOur .fyi predates the lemmy instance by a few months. The owner thought the domain was funny and bought it a while back, but had nothing to do with it so it just got used when we decided to get a lemmy instance up. So I assume at least some of them are random domains people already happened to own anyways.
But the main reason is the one people already mentioned and its because they are cheap.
.ml, .ee and .me are howevet not obscure. They are country TLDs (Mali, Estonia, Montenegro).
r00tyBecause we can.
Surely you mean
Because ICANN
Yes, your way is better. Take my begrudging upvote.
Cheap+suitable for gathering of people