Why One Tiny Island is Still a Domain Name Giant (zdnet.com) 52
The small Pacific island Tokelau is still the most populated country-level domain in the world, outnumbering the 20.8 million domains that use China's .cn. From a report: UK registry for .uk domains has published its latest topsy-turvy map of the world, with land mass weighted according to the number of registered country-level domains. As it was two years ago, Tokelau remains the world's 'largest' country, thanks to its free registration policy; the number of .tk domains reaching nine million in 2012 and from there tripling to 31 million by 2016. Today, the number of .tk domains stands at 21.2 million, but it still remains the largest, just ahead of China. The number of domains with China's .cn has increased over the past two years from 17 million to 20.8 million, making it the second most widely used country-level domain in the world.
Tk widgets? (Score:1)
Someone can put up a site about the Tk GUI library under "tk.tk". I checked, nothing of note.
Just don't pronounce it at the airport, that sound makes them nervous, unless you like free medical exams.
www.tcl.tk (Score:5, Informative)
This is the page you are looking for.
http://www.tcl.tk/ [www.tcl.tk]
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Thanks!
Careful, though, if you mistype that you get tickling smut. (Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but some may be at work.)
Yep advertising. (Score:2, Informative)
Part of the free deal is you need a minimum of of unique hits a month (on which they serve an ad over), or you lose the URL.
I’m surprised (Score:2)
There are almost two million “.us” domains. It surprises me that more than a handful of people have bothered to register one.
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I have one. It's just a personal domain, not something I'm interested in driving traffic towards. My name was taken in .com land.
Recurring fee for domain and hosting (Score:2)
To run a web server on a personal domain (aka "IndieWeb") [indieweb.org], you first need to be technical enough to do so, and then you need to pay a recurring fee for a domain and hosting. In many cases, this hosting can't be on a Raspberry Pi or other machine in a subscriber's home for any of three reasons:
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Even without the web server, it's useful as an email domain. When gmail goes away, I'll still have my own domain.
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The ISP blocks common inbound ports (particularly 443, 80, and 25)
it's useful as an email domain.
How is your home server going to send or receive email if the ISP blocks port 25 "for spam prevention purposes"?
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What home server? You can set the MX record to whatever you want. I certainly don't run an email server from my basement, though I do host a small website from there for family members.
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You can set the MX record to whatever you want.
Provided you pay the recurring fee for the domain and the email hosting.
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Um, yeah?
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Most of the population doesn't see the benefit of paying for a domain and email hosting for the rest of their lives over just using Gmail.
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Most of the population also pays a plumber $125 to install a $9 tube under their sink.
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Not exactly a huge financial burden. My primary domain name runs me something like $12-$15 per year, and the offshore VPS that hosts my websites and email sets me back a whopping €15 (usually $17-$18) per quarter. I spent more taking my parents out to dinner recently than I spent in the past year on keeping a web-and-mail server up and running.
Deliverability from personal domains (Score:2)
Not exactly a huge financial burden. My primary domain name runs me something like $12-$15 per year, and the offshore VPS that hosts my websites and email sets me back a whopping €15 (usually $17-$18) per quarter.
In other words, about $90 per year, plus however much it cost you to learn to securely administer this domain name and VPS. This is $90 per year plus hours of study more than just falling back to Gmail or Outlook.com.
I spent more taking my parents out to dinner recently than I spent in the past year on keeping a web-and-mail server up and running.
People for whom "out to dinner" means Chick-fil-A or Steak n Shake might not appreciate that analogy.
I bring this up with respect to the non-technical majority of people, not only technical people such as yourself and myself, because of the effect that scale has on deliverability. In order for
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I know of only one .cx domain site but it's the one that really counts!
Why? (Score:1)
Since it was asked in the question and not answered in the summary: Because registration of a .tk domain name is free.
Why (Score:3)
Re:Why (Score:5, Informative)
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There was a time in the past when I could hail a free ride using a handheld CB radio faster than calling for a taxi.
And since it was real "ride-sharing," I only had to pay if I had some gas money. After all, we were just people using technology for sharing.
Re:Why (Score:5, Informative)
I think that .tk was the first country to offer free domains, which is why they had a head start. If I remember right, they reserved a bunch of "premium" domains (like cars.tk or movies.tk) that the country tried to sell for higher dollar amounts. That money seems to have gone for funding internet access and to help keep their island above sea level. I don't think that the latter is it working out too well for them.
Pointless (Score:2)
One to file away in case you're ever on Pointless and can't remember Vanuatu.
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In my memory, the "alternate" registrar was .nu They advertised their domains as cheaper and "new" (a play on .nu) That was two decades ago, so maybe my memory is not exact.
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Niue's TLD .nu became more popular in Scandinavia, as nu means "now" in Swedish, and it was open to individuals before Sweden's own .se was. At one time, many erotic sites for the francophone market were in .nu, as nu means "naked" in French.
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I prefer naked women, but whatever floats your boat.
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And all women prefer you stay fully clothed, and away.
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It's an adjective. Not a noun.
You're welcome.
This is the problem with incels; most of them don't even know what a woman is. I'll give you a hint; they're not a type of French horn.
They're like human Ents; they're not even sure what the women look like, so they wouldn't know it if they did find them.
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Adjectives in French decline.