Be wary of vanity TLDs and even some country codes, they may be available but once the renewal rolls around and you've invested time and effort into establishing a presence there, you may be in for a price shock.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack</a>
It's always struck me as odd that TLDs are not just, well, freely configurable? Domains have always been subject to so much artificial scarcity for seemingly no reason. Why can't a DNS resolver handle .whatever?
It can, you just need to pay $210,000 to buy that TLD.
Maybe it's useful for ICANN to delegate management to different orgs (mostly corporations) so they don't have to control every single website on earth directly<p>I would actually prefer for the ICANN to have even less power and for the whole system to be even more distributed
The reason is money
there s always a .com with some imagination
An impressively busy UI for such low information density.
I went with<p><a href="https://meltd.ooo/wn" rel="nofollow">https://meltd.ooo/wn</a><p>for my little NFT project
Thanks to Brexit, I lost my .eu domains. This really pissed me off.<p>Maybe it's a good thing we are all afraid to visit any other tld other than dotCom.
dot org is right there and is at least run by a non profit. The SAVE .ORG campaign succeeded in preventing private equity from buying it out. Thanks to EFF, Wikipedia, NPR, Greenpeace, the YMCA, and even the Girl Scouts!
I'm surprised that "AI" right inside most search engines these days was not the final nail in the coffin of domain importance, and specifically .com<p>browsers hiding most of the URL also negated much of the importance and was a nail<p>QR codes on everything and all phones in everyone's hands all the time was another nail<p>You just don't want a scammy TLD but not even sure what those are these days anymore