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A comment on 9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept 1, 2023. Parent comment

Re:9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept... by jonathankoren on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:46PM (#37213705)
TLDs may sort of be fungible, but not really. No one looks at widgets.com and widgets.tube as identical, whereas no one really cares about one car versus another beyond feelings of personal worth.
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Re:9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept... by listenallyall on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:41PM (#37214338)
I think Hyatt and Hilton have a lot stronger brand names than "a friendly lady named Shiela" but Airbnb built an empire on the latter.
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Re:9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept... by jonathankoren on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:48PM (#37214421)
Comeback when anyone builds an iconic brand around .$BRAND_NAME or even .museum

Seriously. It’s not an issue of brand recognition. It’s an issue of decades of basic phishing defense.

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Re:9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept... by listenallyall on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:52PM (#37216422)
bit.ly
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