The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org

Re:The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org by jtl999 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:08PM (#22124173)

I'm not generally sympathetic to the "domain investor" types, but this quote from domain investor Rick Schwartz I feel is spot on and has been my thought since "day one" of the new TLDs

> "As we go into the seventh year of the new gTLD experiment, they are meaningless. They haven’t been adopted by almost anybody. Circulation is poor. So many registrations are questionable or penny-promotional. The majority are parked and not in use nor will they ever be. And 99.9% of the people on this planet could not name a single one of them! Not a one!"

Full article: http://domainincite.com/25103-di-leaders-roundtable-4-big-pr...

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Re:The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org by coldpie on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:11AM (#22127624)

Mostly the new gTLDs (actually I think the ccTLDs are at fault, but I'm going to whine anyway) mean I no longer know where to put the dots in a domain name. Is it CoolBanan.as? CoolBana.nas? Cool.Ban.an.as? Fuck it, I'm going to the grocery store instead.

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Re:The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org by jrochkind1 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:54PM (#22132625)

Hey, can you pick up some cool bananas for me while you're there?

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Re:The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org by jtl999 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @05:27PM (#22132973)

Yum

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