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Google to Drop Eight New GTLDs

by zacwest on 3/28/23, 3:50 AM with 12 comments

• by eesmith on 3/28/23, 5:41 AM

  Huh. "drop" is its own antonym here.

  "Google to Drop Eight (New) gTLDs" = Google adding eight gTLDs

  "Google to Drop Eight (Old) gTLDs" = Google no longer supporting eight gTLDs.

• by cyode on 3/28/23, 7:24 AM

  > Both gTLDs [.zip and .mov] match popular file extensions

  I wonder how Slack will handle this, or any other tool where both filenames and (auto-hyperlinked) hostnames get passed around. Honestly, the new domains these will enable don’t feel worth the added confusion from overloading the extensions.

• by calebh on 3/28/23, 5:27 AM

  I've been waiting forever to buy a .ing domain from Google as my last name ends in those letters. I literally want to give them my money and they won't let me. I did end up purchasing a .ng domain for my personal website, but I'm not super keen on having it tied to the country of Nigeria.

  How often does Google release these new domains? I know that .ing was delegated to them in 2014... why are they allowed to control these domains if they never release them?

• by cplli on 3/28/23, 8:06 AM

  Someone will definitely get 42.zip or 42kb.zip just to host a “zip bomb as a service”.

  On a more serious note, new gTLDs are so spammy, and “.zip” as others have mentioned will surely lead to some surprises somewhere.

• by a_vanderbilt on 3/28/23, 2:27 PM

  These are going to be ripe for abuse. I don't think there should be any TLDs shadowing popular file extensions.

• by zacwest on 3/28/23, 3:53 AM

  .zip feels like it might get annoying for auto-linking in text messages, but this is a great set of actually-generic ones.

• by EricE on 3/28/23, 7:40 PM

  great, more stuff to blackhole in piHole.

• by sacnoradhq on 3/28/23, 5:28 AM

  {g,}TLDs domains are administered for-profit in a cancer of exclusivity, like Putin and his oligarchs replaced by ICANN and megacorps.