Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain

Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by doh on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:15PM (#38103436)

Well, fuck.ing costs only $12,999.99/yr.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:38PM (#38103750)

You could always settle for eff.ing, for a mere $116.99/yr.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by zarmin on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:43PM (#38103815)

or f.ing for $129,999/yr

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by saghm on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:01PM (#38104121)

I know one-letter domains are popular, but honestly this doesn't seem worth 10x fuck.ing at least to me

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by throwaway447 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:03PM (#38104159)

You might settle for squirt.ing ....

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by binarymax on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:56PM (#38104025)

Electronic-Frontier-Foundation-ing?

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by benatkin on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:11PM (#38104313)

Something I should probably do more of...

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by btschaegg on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:42PM (#38106401)

…and then sell wooden furniture there :D

https://wiki.lspace.org/Effing_Forest

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by TRiG_Ireland on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @07:07PM (#38106666)

Not only furniture. Also proper carpentry. Remember the Effing Stairs.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by baz00 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:19PM (#38103478)

Not joking I seriously considered snagging that. Reckon I could turn a profit.

The I realised I'd have to deal with the people who'd want to buy it and they are mostly scum.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by YeahThisIsMe on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:35PM (#38103692)

Sounds like the perfect group of people to take financial advantage of.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by baz00 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:05PM (#38105235)

That is fine until they make much more money exploiting people than I did exploiting them.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by disjunct on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:35PM (#38103703)

snagg.ing

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by throwaway894345 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:42PM (#38103809)

hope no one is squatt.ing on it

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by BuyMyBitcoins on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:40PM (#38106383)

I prefer the term Scalping, it’s much more accurate.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by throwaway447 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:02PM (#38104140)

Remember when fuck.yu became fuck.me ?

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by ivanmontillam on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:26PM (#38104589)

I remember clearly the irony back then!

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by ncpa-cpl on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:40PM (#38105732)

Did domains from parts of Yugoslavia have to migrate to Montenegro? :P

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by huhtenberg on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:22PM (#38106192)

clusterfuck.ing though is $27/yr

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by sgjohnson on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:23PM (#38107767)

For phase 9.

Getting it now costs $1.1m/y.

A complete non-brainer for $13k. If you could get it for $13k, you'd already be far too late. I don't see how it's not at least a high 6 figure flip.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by bognition on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:58PM (#38104074)

> Starting today, you can register .ing domains as part of our Early Access Period (EAP) for an additional one-time fee. This fee decreases according to a daily schedule until December 5

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by abroadwin on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:08PM (#38104252)

I miss the early days of the internet when the playing field was level. You could actually get a really cool/good/interesting domain just by thinking of it first, not by being rich.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by az226 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:15PM (#38104383)

There should be some system in place like you can only have X% of domains not being actively used for a legitimate purpose. And if you fall below, you will need to pick Y domains to relinquish or they will be randomly relinquished for you.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by mywittyname on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:41PM (#38104843)

Define legitimate. There are plenty of domains that point to simple images.

I'm with you in spirit, but this is a hard problem to solve.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by abroadwin on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:44PM (#38104897)

I'd at least define it as "not just parked for profit."

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by arp242 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:51PM (#38105011)

But it's trivial to just put something on these domains like Wikipedia picture of the day or whatnot, and who's to say that's not "valid"? It's just that no one bothers now because they don't need to.

In principle I agree, but I don't really see how it can be solved in a practical way without a lot of collateral damage.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by joe5150 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:22PM (#38106188)

Lots of domains don't necessarily point to anything as obvious as a website for perfectly normal reasons, either.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by hn8305823 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:38PM (#38104803)

Well there are annual registration fees and those add up quickly if you are squatting on 1000's of domains for 10+ years.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by CydeWeys on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:04PM (#38105223)

There isn't remotely any possible way to enforce this. There are thousands of registrars out there and there's no way to know all the domains owned by a single person or company. Even if you solve that problem, now you'd just have domain squatters spinning up shell LLCs.

Also you have no way to properly define "legitimate".

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by thedaly on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:17PM (#38104427)

I hate the premium domain concept.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by andersrs on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:30PM (#38104668)

Conspiracy theory here: if you go to a big player like GoDaddy they'll sell their queries and some party will see the domain you want and squat it unless you register right away. Just use the whois command in your terminal.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by asylteltine on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:35PM (#38104758)

They claim they don’t but you know they ABSOLUTELY DO

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by dsgnr on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:43PM (#38104881)

Networksolutions does this, godaddy doesnt.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by joshxyz on Thursday November 02, 2023 @01:00AM (#38109192)

so does namecheap.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by squigz on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:34PM (#38106313)

This is the only conspiracy theory I subscribe to as well, and will never be convinced otherwise.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by andersrs on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:06PM (#38118485)

Are you the one person that believes Epstein killed himself?

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by phyzome on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @07:35PM (#38106924)

I remember some claim that whois servers were doing this.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by janalsncm on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:32PM (#38108666)

Unlike most conspiracy “theories” which are unfalsifiable, this should be pretty easy to prove or disprove. Just search for some random plausibly appealing domains and check to see if they’re registered 24-72 hours later.

It’s not a particularly difficult or clever test to run, so I’m definitely not the first person to come up with it. It’s the kind of thing that’s big news if true but a non-story if false. The fact that no one has found it to be true suggests to me that it’s not happening.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by blovescoffee on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:06AM (#38109934)

Fwiw I literally did this and within a few days the domain was registered before I could

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by codingdave on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:57PM (#38105110)

It is worse than that - it costs $38,000 if you pre-register to buy it in December. It costs $1.3 Million if you want to snag it today.

This is beyond a money grab.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by CydeWeys on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:01PM (#38105175)

It's called a Dutch or descending price auction and it's a commonly used price-setting mechanism.

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by postalrat on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:57PM (#38106562)

Damn. I wanted to buy it today for $10 and sell it for $100,000. How dare they take that from me?

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Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain by sgjohnson on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:24PM (#38107778)

> this whole thing is a blatant money grab.

Well, Google has to diversify away from being a glorified ad agency. And they are becoming so detached from the reality that more and more people are starting to see them as complete scumbags.

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