The .meme Domain Is Here (theverge.com)
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Google Registry released a new top-level .meme domain that you can now add to your website. The Verge reports: The new .meme domains are available to register right now as part of an early access period for an "additional one-time fee." If you don't want to pay extra, you can wait until they become publicly available on December 5th at 4PM UTC (12PM ET) to pay just the base annual price. There are already a handful of sites that are embracing the .meme domain, some of which are dedicated to memes from the days of yore, including grumpycat.meme, nyancat.meme, and keyboardcat.meme. The meme tracker knowyour.meme even adopted the new domain. However, some of these .meme sites just direct you to a .com address or point you to another platform.
some take zip.meme and mov.meme! (Score:2)
some take zip.meme and mov.meme!
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He should invent the .gene TLD but that would be quite selfish
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... (side note: a business Google is inexplicably leaving) ...
Google prefers to focus on businesses it can control - so that Google keeps the precious freedom to arbitrarily kill them after a few years [slashdot.org].
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> You can't ignore them, particularly with the social engineering threat.
You must ignore them. There are 1600 TLD's now.
No small business can rely on registering 1600 domains. Use a smarter system.
That is just a myth. Using FUD. (Score:2)
>> particularly with the social engineering threat.
Nope. That is just a myth.
A myth that surely sells a lot of domains to suckers using FUD.
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>> The genie is out of the lamp at this point, I'm tilting at windmills here
Yep. You can't buy the whole namespace with all variations of a given name. You never could
Before or after new TLDs, those don't change a thing.
So why bother trying? to give google loads of cash for a nothingburger?
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The registers want this, that's all. Have you seen the *cost* of these weird TLDs? They want early adopters to pay in some cases well over $10k a year for these if they're likely "good" names to have. It's domain squatting on an industrial scale by Google and the registers themselves.
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Finally a TLD for granny pr0n (Score:4, Interesting)
In some languages (certain French and Dutch dialects) meme (with accents on the e Slashdot will not render) is a common nickname for grandmother, like nana or mee-mah in the US.
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Cool. but a little niche.
Does Google control TLDs now? (Score:2)
You must have been sleeping the last 15 years. (Score:2)
>> Google control...Who made them evil overlords?
You must have been sleeping the last 15 years.
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But... but... they said "Don't be evil" before!
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Exactly. They said. You believed ?
...that you can now add to your website (Score:4, Funny)
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knowyour.meme
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How about dot Chuck Norris (Score:1)
You know, this could turn into a good thing (Score:2)
Maybe this is the idea that finally drives the whole concept of "Internet Meme" into the ground.
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People have been sharing stupid vaguely funny stuff attempting entertain and gain attention from their peers since the dawn of time.
I don't see this particular expression of it disappearing.
More phishing domain names (Score:2)
What's the point of creating more TLDs? The obvious result would be yet another galore of yourbank.meme domains for phishers to use.
Yet another TLD to block (Score:2)
I think it's finally time to move over to whitelists. It starts getting ridiculous. No relevant webpage will ever bother using any of these TLDs. All you'll ever find there is domain grabbers, phishing pages and the odd "ohhh, look at us, how hip and trendy we are" wanna-be-important-but-is-mostly-impotent trash webpage.
We should have a ".ad" TLD (Score:3)
we should have a ".ad" TLD to make adblocking easier.
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Just have them set the evil bit like the rest of the malicious traffic, that would immediately solve the problem.
.ad is Andorra (Score:3)
Why would you want to block the Principality of Andorra [wikipedia.org]?
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That's what the DNS root is supposed to be, but it has long since ceased to function.
We've needed an alternate DNS root ever since people started abusing country-code TLDs (starting with the Cocos Islands, I think; others followed). Any country-code TLD that makes no attempt to limit itself to content relevant in some way to the country in question (or hosted there, or something) shouldn't be on the list. And it goes without saying that the garbage
Re: Title. (Score:2)
New TLDs for profit (Score:2)
are the microplastics and forever chemicals of the digital space. "I made my money, the consequences are not my fucking problem."
Cool (Score:1)