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Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by derefr on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:33PM (#21393852)
Why would TLDs need to be created based on need? What’s wrong with a company making a TLD as a whimsical cute idea (and still expecting to be profitable doing so, because whimsical people will go along with it)?
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Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by tadasv on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:00AM (#21397193)
I'm not necessarily talking about the TLD. This is more like a "service" that's controlled by google and certain rules are enforced to those who hold the domain.

This makes very little sense to me. I get that it's nice to have a short domain that points to some action. But why do you need a completely separate namespace for this?

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Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by anoncake on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:47AM (#21396605)
Using .new for something "cute" means it can't be used for something useful anymore.
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