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| ▲ | pixel_popping 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | .is is a very resilient TLD indeed, and it's well known in some communities. | | |
| ▲ | arikrahman 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It's a pretty good heuristic if some of the more targeted communities choose a TLD and stay up for some time. | |
| ▲ | mfkp an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | how about .to? that's what i'm mainly using for my url shortener/redirects and haven't run into any issues... yet | | |
| ▲ | ButlerianJihad 42 minutes ago | parent [-] | | How about using a gTLD that is not subject to the whims of geopolitics and unstable island nations? I think it is class-A stupid for whole swaths of the Internet to be depending on these "micronations" who are prostituting themselves for a quick buck. Some perhaps don't even profit from selling these domains, but they suffer years down the road from the reputation hit or the grueling demands of providing a service to people who don't live there and have no interest in the actual success, or even survival, of these nations. It is hilarious and ironic that people are nitpicking on GoDaddy themselves, when GoDaddy is a perfectly stable and legitimate registry/registrar; GoDaddy is a normal American business based in America and doing business that benefits American citizens, rather than some random banana republic. These ccTLDs are always a gimmick, and they should be avoided by anyone who is serious about stability, resilience, or organizational reputation on the Internet. | | |
| ▲ | walrus01 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | > American business based in America and doing business that benefits American citizens, rather than some random banana republic. This makes a huge presumption of rock solid stability of political/economic system, that America is not going the direction of a banana republic, in terms of graft, corruption and patronage, which it certainly seems to be these days. | | |
| ▲ | dragonwriter 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | “Banana republic” is specifically a term referring to countries that are puppets of the United States on behalf of commercial interests (the trope-naming example being Gautemala on behalf of United Fruit Company); in the absence of an imperial power pulling US strings on behalf of that powers’ commercial interests which dominated the US economy, it would be hard for the US to be reasonably described as going the direction of a “banana republic”. What it is more going the way of a major power resenting a weakened position in the world falling into authoritarian and/or kleptocratic nationalist dictatorship leaning on the propaganda of restoring national greatness, somewhere between Hitler’s Germany and Putin’s Russia, which is a very different situation than a banana republic. | | |
| ▲ | gnabgib 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | No.. that's not specifically it at all. > dependent on exporting a single product or commodity, often controlled by foreign-owned entities [0] Such countries/regions long existed before the US, although the term was coined by a US writer (William Sydney Porter), and the Banana industry (specifically) has a lot to answer for (in the US specifically). A region making money from.. foreign-owned chips, oil, IT-consultants or Sardines has the same status. The term has a terrible history (surprising the Gap hasn't rebranded). [0]: https://www.britannica.com/topic/banana-republic | |
| ▲ | echoangle 18 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic Banana republic isn’t specific to US control and it’s actually not that unreasonable to call Russia a banana republic |
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| ▲ | ButlerianJihad 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Being an American citizen, I prefer to do business with American entities, regardless of what shitty opinion her detractors may express. I am loyal to her, more loyal than I would be to Tonga, or Montenegro, just to choose some random examples. | | |
| ▲ | walrus01 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I don't think you're wrong that tiny pacific island nations are not stable or reliable, at this point they're all either a client state of China, the USA or Australia. But I think it's also unfair and mean spirited to say that a country like Nauru (barely a country, IMHO, population of 12500 people) is "prostituting" itself by allowing 3rd party registrars to sell domains for a profit, since they have basically no other resource with the bird guano originated phosphate mines now being stripped clean. Would I use a Nauru domain? No. Do I go out of my way to insult them on the internet? Also no. | | |
| ▲ | shishcat 19 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Btw, I highly doubt Nauru makes much money selling their ccTLD, they manage it directly on the island and each domain costs a whopping 500$/year. Better examples: Tuvalu (.TV), Anguilla (.AI) Both of these countries only get a cut of the money from the domains; all the technical management is done by GoDaddy for .TV and Identity Digital for .AI. In my opinion, very sad. .AI was run by a local guy in Anguilla (Vince Cate) utilizing the https://cocca.org.nz/ domain SaaS, but Identity Digital took over in late 2024. |
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| ▲ | shishcat 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Interesting read from 2004: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2004/12/20/we-were-sold-... But I strongly disagree with your conclusion. gTLDs are also run by profit-driven companies and operate under ICANN's US-rooted system. ccTLDs at least offer some jurisdictional autonomy and diversity. And many "trendy" ccTLDs are not actually run by unstable local governments. .me, for example, is operated with GoDaddy and Identity Digital, while .to relies on Tucows, a Canadian company. So the irony is that these ccTLDs often end up controlled or technically managed by the same North American companies you consider more trustworthy. Very few small/island countries actually manage their ccTLD directly, which is extremely sad. | |
| ▲ | naturalmovement 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Didn't the crustacean site temporarily lose its domain a minute ago because someone had to make an in-person payment to whatever Serbian mafia controls .rs? Vanity domains are beyond stupid and not worth the trouble. |
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