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Re:.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public by rimliu on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:02AM (#24504721)
How about .straight and .bisexual?
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Re:.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public by cpach on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:07AM (#24504785)
Feel free to launch them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain
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Re:.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public by doytch on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:09AM (#24504805)
Probably because not enough people care enough. If you want to start one of those, here's a good starting point: https://newgtlds.icann.org
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Re:.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public by whymauri on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:06AM (#24504767)
Certainly nobody is stopping someone from applying for these gTLDs. It's just an expensive process, IIRC.
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Re:.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public by cjsaltlake on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:05AM (#24504765)
The community for straight people is too disparate to be meaningful. .bi is interesting though..
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Re:.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public by danellis on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:13AM (#24504844)
Two-letter codes are generally countries. In this case, Burundi.
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Re:.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public by cpach on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:08AM (#24504798)
Yep. As a straight person I really don’t feel that I have very much in common with someone just because of the fact that they’re straight.
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Re:.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public by cpach on Thursday September 17, 2020 @02:47PM (#24508450)
Hm... By choosing the right gTLD one could fit a whole poem in an e-mail address.

Example: [email protected] (Keats)

That could take the whole concept of vanity domains to a whole new level!

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Re:.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public by mmm_grayons on Thursday September 17, 2020 @04:01PM (#24509261)
I think we're better off without the .feet domain... I shudder to think what horrors the internet would produce with such a thing.
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Re:.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public by offbyone on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:14AM (#24504868)
Can you imagine how many [email protected] email addresses there'd be?
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Re:.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public by neilsense on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:18AM (#24504904)
Reads like most tech twitter profiles
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