#domainnames — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #domainnames, aggregated by home.social.
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FYI: Explaining eTLD+1: eTLD+1 is the registrable domain that browsers and ad systems treat as one site. How the Public Suffix List defines it, and where the boundary is enforced. https://ppc.land/etld-1/ #eTLDplus1 #DomainNames #WebDevelopment #DigitalMarketing #SEO
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What will happen to the domain name domain.name?
Verisign's plan to terminate .name 3LDs would free up highly desirable domain name
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VeriSign says, "not in your.name"
ICANN approves proposal to blow away 25 years' worth of *.*.name domains
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US gov suspends .org domain of Italian anti-fascist hacktivists Autistici/Inventati
Abuse of anti-terror powers highlights international risk of .org TLD being subject to the whims of the Oval Office
https://pub.roddie.digital/3mukfdkqzkk24
#domains #domainNames #TLDs #gTLDs #dotOrg #Autistici #Inventati
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Fedi user complains that all non-original gTLDs are useless garbage that they should block... while posting from a .social instance :poopSweatdrop:
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Campaigns for .furry and .meow successfully each raised over the $90k needed to submit their ASP-supported applications.
https://pub.roddie.digital/3mucnyvme3k27
@dotfurry @dotmeow
#domains #domainNames #newTLDs #newgTLDs #gTLDs #dotMeow #dotFurry -
Testing out a simple blogging method because I'm excited about the new gTLD program 2026 round and what that means for all the silly new domain possibilities for fedi instances and bsky handles
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Exciting to think how many new gTLDs we could get out of this though some are surely set to fail (like .con and .nil being too close to .com and .mil) which is wild since it costs $227k per TLD application
https://domainnamewire.com/2026/08/13/lfg-top-level-domains/
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Microsoft finally switching to cloud.microsoft after announcing it in 2023 - excited to see what carnage this causes with our firewalls and proxy servers
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-is-cloud-microsoft
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"The Human-Centered Computing Foundation, a non-profit founded in Colorado last November, says it plans to apply for .self in the current ongoing ICANN application round."
And to give them away for free
https://domainincite.com/31779-a-free-ethical-new-gtld-shurely-shome-mishtake
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The Register: Zendesk users targeted as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters spin up fake support sites. “Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be circling Zendesk users for its latest extortion campaign, with new phishing domains and weaponized helpdesk tickets uncovered by ReliaQuest.”
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".io questions in sharp focus as UK signs Chagos treaty"
Maybe Identity Digital could apply to get it turned into a gTLD if it were to no longer exist as a ccTLD
https://domainincite.com/31086-io-questions-in-sharp-focus-as-uk-signs-chagos-treaty