That site just made me realise that my surname (kitchen) has now become a .gtld
Someone else clearly figured this out before me though and firstname.surname has gone already.
What would I have done with it though? I've already discovered through having a .cc domain that there are many companies, websites and forms that simply don't accept unexpected domains.
For example, in the past I've spent several days on the phone with a business insurance company trying to get the policy emailed to the company email address and failing because somewhere in their system emails only get routed to 'valid' addresses where 'valid' includes known domain names. The only solution was buying a .com as well to use in such circumstances.
This is a big point. The internet probably has a million systems that have a regexp somewhere listing all the top level domain names that were valid at the time, and half of them aren't maintained and will stay broken forever.
That being said, email validation needs to check for trivial issues (i.e., have you entered a non-empty string? does it have a @ somewhere?) and the proper validation happens if a verification email gets delivered or not.
Well, I own http://tease.red/ and http://teaser.link/ redirected to TextTeaser. tease.red may correspond to some porn cams because of tease. But I want it because I want it to be read as "teasered".
Like the text was teasered after it was summarized by TextTeaser.
That might be true for some. Especially Microsoft seems to have only registered for their brands. But Google applied for .baby, .books, .movie, .music and many other non-brand TLDs.
A much better implementation than my own crappy.domains. I assume they are generated from a list. Would be nice to be able to pick the TLD you want to generate domains for.
I get the impression if I registered briansrecipes.com I would get better traffic than brian.recipes . Or am I wrong? So much of this is irrelevant since people google rather than type in urls
There's no guarantee that a particular company was able to grab their own .com anyway. Remember when people looking for Python would go to python.com when it was a wholesale porn distributor? Or when whitehouse.com was a porn site?
Just a quick call-out for casual sexism and ageism: you can say "the average person" without implying that women and old people can't use technology properly.
> .com doesn’t say much these days other than ‘I got here first’. A .CEO address on the other hand adds value. It communicates power and authority. When I send people an email from my @JeremySchoemaker.CEO people know that it’s coming from ‘the top’. When people visit my .CEO identity page I know they know I’m a professional who takes himself seriously. It’s credible. To my mind no address does a better job at demonstrating thought leadership.
Man, this dotCEO business is wankery turned up to 11. I haven't cringed so hard in days.
It doesn't even make sense. It gets the hierarchy of email addresses completely turned inside out. What do you put in front of the @ in your email address? ceo@cocacola.ceo ? That's just weird.
Someone else clearly figured this out before me though and firstname.surname has gone already.
What would I have done with it though? I've already discovered through having a .cc domain that there are many companies, websites and forms that simply don't accept unexpected domains.
For example, in the past I've spent several days on the phone with a business insurance company trying to get the policy emailed to the company email address and failing because somewhere in their system emails only get routed to 'valid' addresses where 'valid' includes known domain names. The only solution was buying a .com as well to use in such circumstances.