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Re:New gTLD Application for .lan by procone on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:15PM (#50007701)
gTLDs were a mistake. I say that as an owner of several domains with gTLDs.

There's almost no value.

Large businesses almost never use them. The potential for scams / phish / etc are now limitless.

Re:New gTLD Application for .lan by SahAssar on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:10PM (#50013725)
Do you also think that of the original 7 gTLDs (.com, .edu, .gov, .int, .mil, .net, and .org)?
Re:New gTLD Application for .lan by simondotau on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:20PM (#50014808)
They make sense given the history of the Internet, but not in hindsight. Most obviously, .gov, .edu and .mil should be under the .us TLD, but obviously the inventor's prerogative applies.

It's arguably defensible to have a limited number of non-geographic TLDs. "Dot com" was an aesthetic as much as a technical decision. I wonder though, if .com/net/org had never existed, we would have a different sense of aesthetic around domain names, and there's no reason to think that it would be any better or worse than what we have now.