Re:Domains for the Rest of Us
by palad1n on Monday September 21, 2020 @06:08AM
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Yeah, I used to speculate in domain names, and the ones that are coming up remind me of the crap ones I used to register before I knew what I was doing. Every once in a while you come up with unused ones that really stick out (like I remember there was "atomictangerine.com"), but otherwise I would recommend trying something more recognizable in a different tld (like "helloworld.blue" or something—there are a lot these days). My 2c.
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In your experience of speculating, have you come across any data about the frequency of people actually typing out domain names? I seem to be typing them less and less over time.
Are we headed towards a business phone number 515-555-5555.com being a totally sufficient unique domain name? And then well why not just skip TLDs and share IP addresses?
People can't remember them, so they go to Google and accept whatever Google returns.
Ditto.
It's the case in China, that's one the thing that I really didn't expect when I went there, you had giant ads on building with 2038-232-423.cn (that's just random numbers, but you get the idea).
I’ve never been to China, but it appears numbers are chosen over letters for ease of memorization, and are not always random digits: https://gizmodo.com/why-do-chinese-urls-use-numbers-not-lett...
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us
by anderspitman on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:02AM
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I do get the feeling having a domain is almost more about TLS than the name these days
Is there a market for niche TLD domains? If so, who are the people buying / using them?
"helloworld.blue" sounds completely worthless to me. Even "hello.blue" - who would buy that for more than a few hundred dollars, and for what?
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us
by thelightthat on Monday September 21, 2020 @07:58AM
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Jet Blue for a humanizing rebrand campaign? Not hard to imagine a scenario.
Brenda Fletcher will be happy when they do [1]