c/technology · by tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml · 109d

ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick?

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/icann_new_gtld_applications/

Do you have ideas for TLDs? Here's some of mine, not sure if any of these exist already:

.plus
.now
.ent (short for enterprise)
.one
.er (for domain hacks, don't get any ideas)
.db
.source

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98 Comments

knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works · 112 pts · 109d (3 replies)

I believe more Tlds is generally stupid. But instead of all the protect the children bullshit, I'd be good with a .kids tld that requires certification to own. Then you can just whitelist that for your precious crotch goblins and leave the rest of us alone.

eleijeep@piefed.social · 66 pts · 109d (2 replies)

That's a good suggestion, but unfortunately age verification is not about protecting the kids, it's about removing anonymity from online platforms and making sure that we can't exercise our right to speech online without risking government harassment.

Oh yeah and the advertisers don't want to pay to advertise to bots.

ilmagico@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 109d (1 reply)

The idea would be to provide a "protect the kids" alternative that doesn't require global surveillance and privacy violations, so the next time they try to justify another rights violation to "protect the kids" they can be pointed to the sane alternative, and (hopefully) they'll run out of excuses.

I mean, one would wish it'll play out like that, though I have some doubts. Somehow excuses seem to be always found.

defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 109d

They'll just start using the other classic excuse of "preventing terrorism" instead in the case that "protect the children" no longer works.

If you're against mass surveillance, you must be pro-terrorism, right?

Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 90 pts · 109d (2 replies)

.md
.tar
.gz
.iso
.lnk
.txt
.exe
.mp4
.mp3
.jpg
.png

I want to watch the world burn like it did on the creation of the .zip TLD

ScrotusMaximus@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 109d

.md already exists for Moldova

partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 109d

Linux shebang logic looking pretty genius.

raldone01@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 109d (4 replies)

I think we really need a .docx. Why not do all of the classic office file extensions?

sorghum@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 109d

Ruin windows search even more? I like your thinking

eleijeep@piefed.social · 20 pts · 109d (2 replies)

We have .com but where are .exe and .bat?

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 109d

We also have .zip but no .rar, .ace, .gz, .bz, .7z, .xz or even .tar.

daychilde@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 109d

Ah, man, I would give so much to register autoexec.bat lol

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 109d

.ope : for all your midwestern typo needs
.doom : all domains registered in this TLD must have a playable version of Doom somewhere on the site
.ram : about as price effective as buying actual RAM rn. I call dibs on more.ram so I can have a downloads page at download.more.ram

owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 109d (2 replies)

.hell
.nope
.bruh
.con (to be used exclusively for scams)
.duck
.dot

BlackCat@piefed.social · 12 pts · 109d (1 reply)

I loled at con

Archer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 109d

US registrants must fill out the illegal income box in their taxes

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 109d

.fedi for Fediverse Project

reddig33@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 109d (6 replies)

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SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 16 pts · 108d (4 replies)

.gov and .mil should disappear. The US can use .gov.us like any other country.

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 108d (3 replies)

Honestly it is pretty silly it's still like that. Are the subdomains enforced in other countries?

The other option is expand .gov .mil for all UN nations and enforce country sub domains (ie .us.gov and .md.gov).

Scrollone@feddit.it · 2 pts · 108d (1 reply)

Italy used to have .gov.it and all Comune could register their own, but now only the central government can use gov.it

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 108d

I think I'm biased towards .it.gov as an option because then you could have smaller orgs of a country fall under it

SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 107d

France has .gouv.fr.

daychilde@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 109d

i think we're pretty much past that era, honestly.

Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 109d (1 reply)

.luigi

tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 109d

www.free.luigi
www.mama.luigi

P1nkman@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 109d (1 reply)

.dot

I'd love to have dot.dot.

mPony@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 107d

.slash
.backslash

lnxtx@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 109d (2 replies)

.gaza

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 108d (1 reply)

There's already .ps for west bank and Gaza strip

vinyl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 108d

no that's for photoshop dummy

mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 109d (1 reply)

.slop ?

Scrollone@feddit.it · 3 pts · 108d

Microsoft should be the owner of the slop domain.

rmuk@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 109d

./
..
.https://www/
.dot-com
.enter

nightlily@leminal.space · 16 pts · 108d

.fedi seems obvious given where we are.

Tanoh@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 109d (2 replies)

.er .db

All two letter TLDs are exclusive to countries. So unless you make a country called Ergostan and Dbaseistan and get them internationally recognised you are out of luck. However, if you manage you don't have to pay the fee!

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 108d (1 reply)

.er is already the country code for Eritrea

Scrollone@feddit.it · 1 pts · 108d

Damn, if colonies were still a thing, Italy would be the empire of domain hacks, with .it, .er and .so

Edit: before you think I'm pro-colonization, my post was just a historically accurate joke

sorghum@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 109d (3 replies)

.er

I hardly know her!

tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 109d

I was more concerned about slurs of the XBox Live circa 2010 variety

treadful@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 109d

Damn, you got that hard R domain?

Mountainaire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 108d

knew.her

civ@lemmy.civl.cc · 13 pts · 108d (1 reply)

.dash for Morse code enjoyers

Allero@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 107d

Clever lol

LordMayor@piefed.social · 13 pts · 109d (1 reply)

.slop
.clancker
.gooner
.moe

Fuck it, just give them their own space.

poolcritter@pawb.social · 5 pts · 108d

.moe already exists; my Matrix client has a .moe domain.

Chais@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 108d (6 replies)

.antifa and .profa so we don't have to guess where the company/project/person/etc. stands.

CameronDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 108d (5 replies)

Unless the domain registry is going to research each and every applicant, you'll still have to guess. I own a .uk domain despite never having visited ~~Ukraine~~ United Kingdom.

Edit: not sure why I was confused about the .UK TLD, fixed.

mangaskahn@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 108d (1 reply)

.uk is the cctld for the United Kingdom. Ukraine uses .ua

CameronDev@programming.dev · 1 pts · 108d

I have no idea why I got that stuck in my head wrong. Still, my point stands, anyone can buy any domain at any time. Ownership of a domain implies nothing.

Chais@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 108d (2 replies)

*whooosh*

CameronDev@programming.dev · 1 pts · 108d (1 reply)

Care to explain? Anyone can buy any domain, and host anything they want on it. Domains don't guarantee anything.

Chais@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 108d

It wasn't serious. Just like .dot or .slop it's more a joke than a serious suggestion. You wouldn't seriously expect "AI" companies to dutifully buy .slop domains for their nonsense. Just like I wouldn't seriously expect right wing parties, companies that support them or are "apolitical" or "undecided" to buy .profa domains.
But it would be lovely of them.

commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 109d (4 replies)

.agpl

only for agpl compatible software

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 109d (3 replies)

Actually, you’re on to something there; have the TLD represent the license agreement to access ANYTHING served over it.

.gpl .lgpl .agpl .mpl .mit .bsd .apache .epl .cddl .cc0 .ccby .ccbysa .ccbynd .ccbync .ccbyncsa .ccbyncnd

commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 109d (2 replies)

.cc already exists

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 109d (1 reply)

Good luck restricting it for this purpose… but as you’ll see, there isn’t actually a creative commons license that is just “CC” anyway, so that wouldn’t be an issue.

mschae@discuss.mschae23.de · 3 pts · 109d

Could use subdomains to specify it further, like v4.bysa.cc for all CC BY-SA 4.0 works

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 109d (1 reply)

.crackhouse

kn33@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 109d

.crackhome

BlackCat@piefed.social · 12 pts · 109d

.milk
.polka
.weinermobile
.supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

InnerScientist@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 109d

.ICANNT

puppinstuff@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 109d

.oligarch

hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 108d

.crimes for cataloguing the crimes of the corresponding websites. E.g microsoft.crimes or x.crimes or whitehouse.crimes

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 108d (3 replies)

.crom

Crom.crom

... It offers nothing.

Also .slash, because chaos must reign.

Ohh!

How about .— for all the LLMs to create their own deepweb on?

We can just call the realworld version of the Blackwall the EmWall, fittingly more stupid and annoyingly named than anything in actual cyberpunk, as seems to be the writing style for our timeline.

ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 108d (2 replies)

I would vote for .slash just so we can get slashdot.slash.

Smokeless7048@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 108d (1 reply)

No, it's slash dot dot slash, but one of them is a period, and ones a backslash

elephantium@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 108d

Hmm....a troll domain.

"httpscolonslashslashslashdotdotslash"

shirro@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 109d

I would take the old ones back from for profits, put them in the hands of a non-profit and keep them at a sensible price. All this land speculation is bullshit and contributes no value to domain users - its all a get rich scheme for a small number of insiders.

Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 109d (2 replies)

.taco

MisterD@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 109d

Nah, the world needs .pedo for the Epstein class

daychilde@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 109d

Taco Bell wouldn't know what to do. :)

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 108d

wank.er

I got ideas.

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 109d (2 replies)

I’d pick .

And then people can register whatever TLD they want on top of that.

TeddE@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 109d

ICANN says thanks, but that one is theirs, and they are also happy to let people register whatever they want (but for say … $227K a pop)

daychilde@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 109d

You've inspired me. I'd pick , and watch the world fucking BURN. :)

Naich@piefed.world · 6 pts · 109d

.dotdot

kalkulat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 109d

I would again recommend that anyone doing online marketing and/or tracking be legally confined to the .COM TLD. Severe penalties for corporate abuse would include removal of all internet access. Less severe penalties might include a confiscation of double of all profits made outside of .COM during a deliberate infraction.

There would be no cost for any TLD's outside of .COM; all regulation and legal costs to be paid-for by .COM - users.

njordomir@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 108d (1 reply)

.fart because decades of growing up haven't quite cured my potty humor.

garretble@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 108d

Finally can register

clownpenis.fart

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 109d

Im pretty sure you can already get a .one

Sickday@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 109d (2 replies)

.toes

CatZoomies@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 109d (1 reply)

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