> It's absolutely game-changing as I'm writing a bunch of stories and need to iterate fast and recompile my thoughts just by typing in 8 characters.

Is it? Or are you being sarcastic? Every word processor/text editor that has ever existed on this planet has a shortcut for that. Every phone that is internet connected has a notes app only one click away and the option to 'share' whatever you wrote.

These cloud tools have only one appeal, easy synchronization, and for the rest a big list of drawbacks. As this 'revolutionary' (but still worse) functionality demonstrates.

Ctrl+N

If it's something I do frequently, my browser autocompletes an ordinary long URL after 1-2 characters. It doesn't seem very game-changing to have to type in a whole short URL instead. What am I missing?

My browser is not reliably auto-completing URLs to specifically post a new tweet, or create a new calendar entry, or write a new email, etc. Those URLs are often long and bulky.

The intent of .new is when you know you want to perform a specific action (like write a new doc), you type in the first few characters of the related .new domain name, let the browser autocomplete do the rest, and now you've already got the new thing and are working on it instead of having been deposited at the home page of the site in the question and then have to navigate through the UI to make the new thing yourself.

You can usually teach the browser URLS by typing the start of the long bulky address and pasting the rest and pressing enter, then repeating that a few times. If you always do it by going to the homepage and navigating, that's what the browser learns.

I'm using with some friends a thing like that...https://telegra.ph/ The only problem is if you don't access from Telegram then it's accessible for editing just in the authoring device. The good thing for some people is that is very useful for tethered connections.

The singular version works, too. https://doc.new

As does https://document.new

huh. the sunrise period has only been 2 weeks so far. how did this exist for 2-3 months? that's unfair.

"The Qualified Launch Program (QLP) Addendum is available for new gTLD registry operators as of today. The QLP Addendum allows a registry operator to register up to 100 domain names to third parties prior to the Sunrise Period for purposes of promoting the TLD, under certain conditions."

https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announ...

Didn't actually realize it was a .new domain (and didn't think .new was actually a new domain) since some people recommended it to me a while back (as far as December 2018 even... I think).

Obviously since it's Google, they are going to show off all the features first-hand.