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Wulfy

So it looks like I got a new hobby.

I bought and paid "word.TLD" for $10 and paid for it.

Then the registrar turns around that because the "word.TLD" is cool. They decided its "premium and want $3500 for the domain.
(Fuck you arseholes)

There was no record of the premium domain registerd. Their system actually flags premium domains as you check them.

IMHO, This is unethical and I have sent a scary letter to them invoking wrath of god, the seven plagues, #ICANN contractual compliance for registrar misconduct, Consumer Authority complaint and report to UNI naming and registry.

This may be my last entry...

#TLD#domains#registrars
Wulfy

So all the #TLD registrars now hold onto "dictionary word".TLD and then try to sell it to you as 'premium'?

The number of

word.TLD - that have no DNS entries, are not registered and yet show up as unavailable when trying to register that domain seems to me is just a concering scam.

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@drscriptt Naive question: WHEN does the average #Internet #user ever open up a webpage with an #IP address instead of a #domain or even #FQDN?

  • Seriously, the only cases I saw were either some old, non-public - facing server in some B2B/API setting or a test that #httpd / #ngnix / #ssh / … function properly on like a #VPS and that the #DNS hasn't been updated (yet!) to include said host / FQDN in the records, and even then it's bad cuz you'd rather want to use it's FQDN instead because with #IPv4 shortages on one hand and tools like #Portainer on the other, one should not use an #IPaddress as addressing method because #WAF / #Proxies used to "#MUX" / "#NAT" services under one IP address or #IPv6 block may need that distinction by being queried for a specific FQDN...

The Idea if !SSL / #TLD for #IPaddresses makes me feel like Jeff Goldblum!

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MidniteMikeWrites

I really wanted the domain "capitalism . wtf" which has been held since 2022. But I think misaligned.markets was a more meaningful choice in the end.

Discovered .markets was a tld and it forced me to come up with a blog name that actually reflects the issue I wanted to talk about.

#blogging#domain#tld
Root Moose

Now that the UK has signed a deal to hand over the Chagos islands, the .io TLD will likely get repurposed.

Really would like a method to migrate my .io TLD hosted Mastodon server to another TLD.

AFAIK it's not just a matter of lift/shift/config - Mastodon breaks when the server FQDN is changed.

Anyone know better?

#Mastodon#Web#SocialMedia
Wulfy

Sooo!

What are #sysadmins contingency plans for when Nazi USA starts to fuck with #tld and other Internet infrastructure?

Like implementing fascist (anti-#DEI) slash and burn, packet inspection drops and other shitfuckery?

And if you think that's unlikely the US Nazis are already leaning on US suppliers to make sure they don't have DEI policies.

What's your plan for the Great Firewall of the USA?
Or US exercising Internet #killswitch Obama put in?

Switching copies of TLD Database to be root?

#internetworking#internet#infrastructure
Jan Schaumann

Remember `.su`, the ccTLD for the Soviet Union? Created in 1990, just 15 months before the USSR was dissolved and in ICANN limbo since, broadly used primarily for various sorts of cybercrime.

Now ICANN will finally move to retire the #TLD from the #DNS, targeting removal by 2030:

domainnamewire.com/2025/03/11/

Interestingly, ICANN moving forward with this could imply that they _will_ follow through on the removal of the `.io` #ccTLD should the return of the territory to Mauritius complete...

Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News · ICANN moves to retire Soviet-era .SU country domain name - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name NewsDomain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030. ICANN has notified the operator of the legacy Soviet Union country code domain, .su, of its plans to retire the domain in five years, Domain Name Wire has learned. The .su namespace, which remains open for new registrations and currently has around 100,000 domain names, is […]
securityskeptic :donor: :verified:

In anticipation of the completion of ICANN policy activity for the New gTLD Program: Next Round, the Interisle team looked again at our 2024 Cybercrime Supply Chain study. Using the same data, we offer additional measurements, metrics and observations here to further inform ICANN and other policy makers as they consider policy for Round 2.

interisle.substack.com/p/icann

#icann#dns#domainnames
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Skip Lacaze

@MichaelRoss It appears that a Google seach (on Safari, not the app) using a single seach term and “.gov” returns at least one full screen of federal, state, and local government sites, with no “Sponsored” links. I tried it with “wildlife” and “recycle.” Using “ca.gov” turned up many screens on which all the hits were California state and local government sites. A few found embedded links, rather than the actual page URLs, which was the only way it turned up any local governments who have given up their free .gov URL for cityorcounty.org addresses. (I have no idea why any of them did that.) If the federal government changed from .gov to .us.gov, it would be easy to find their pages without a bunch of state and local pages mixed in. #SEO #SearchEngineOptimization #TLD #Top-LevelDomain #TopLevelDomains #KISS

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