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Whenever I come across a new lemmy instance, it most likely has some sort of obscure TLD (.world, .ml, .ee, .me, .social just to name a few). Why aren't there more with more common TLDs?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More desirable domains available and significantly lower costs are a couple of reasons that come to mind..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I got lemmy.cfd for $1

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to guess cost plays at least some part. Obscure TLDs are usually cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised there aren't more .app/.dev given Porkbun is giving them out for free.

[–] yom_ 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yom_ 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I checked on the website directly and didn’t see that offer!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

lemm.ee is on the Estonian ccTLD because the person that runs it is in Estonia.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely you mean

Because ICANN

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yes, your way is better. Take my begrudging upvote.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I went with .boo for mine due to cost and the fact that I’ve never seen it as a TLD before. There are a lot of interesting new ones out there now, might as well use this opportunity to try it out. (Also as an instance admin I’m not trying to make any money off of running an instance so keeping costs as low as possible is ideal)

[–] DrQuint 5 points 1 year ago

I'm still waiting on a .ninja. The only site I ever saw with one was basically just serving an animation with ninjas.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was just looking for a funny name and came up with waste-of.space

It is 3x more expensive than a .be (my countries TLD) but I like it.

[–] RisingSwell 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You'd have to come up with a pun that's ends in be to change, and that's just not OK :D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Waste-of.be just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

[–] ABCDE 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bumble.be or haram.be already taken?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not available anymore. But funny :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This one is available!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cos its considered cool and people follow the herd.

For techbros a while ago an .io domain was a thing because its sounds like i/o and projects an image you are tech literate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

honestly .io is still a good one, but it's expensive.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

newer tlds are cheaper and you can get cooler names

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Because we feel like it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Our .fyi predates the lemmy instance by a few months. The owner thought the domain was funny and bought it a while back, but had nothing to do with it so it just got used when we decided to get a lemmy instance up. So I assume at least some of them are random domains people already happened to own anyways.

But the main reason is the one people already mentioned and its because they are cheap.

.ml, .ee and .me are howevet not obscure. They are country TLDs (Mali, Estonia, Montenegro).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Starting in 2012 ICANN started introducing a bunch of new ones partly so there's more addresses and also so that the names can better express the purpose of the site.

[–] Zarxrax 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A ton of new tlds became available a few years ago. A lot of newer sites use them, not just Lemmy servers. Older sites that have already been established for a while will obviously be using the standard endings, so if you compare lemmy sites vs well-known sites that have been around for a while, then that's the reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It was a big point of contention when they first proposed the tld expansion because established brands didn't want someone squatting on their name in and alternate tld and doing who knows what with it.

A lot of the fedi sites I think use them just for the creative play on words people come up with. Even the most common tlds are not that expensive unless it's something with history already, on the level of less than $30/year usually.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. After you log into your own instance, you don't need to remember any other url, so instance urls don't really matter - it's just an address for the instance.
  2. Less sought-after domain suffixes are significantly cheaper to register than .com and you can usually get what you want for a prefix (main reason)
  3. Lemmy instances are not dot coms by nature so they may as well be something else.
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Cheap+suitable for gathering of people

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a few reasons, as well as the ones listed:

  • .ml is a Mali domain which was being given away, so a lot of people snatched one up. This is now coming back to bite them on the ass as Mali want them all back.
  • Some are run by the same team, like the .world ones who have lemmy, mastodon and I think calckey. I don't think the same goes for all of them (but it may do - the .world ones are just the most high profile examples), .social just makes sense for a Fediverse social media instance.
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm literally on .net, should be a classic

[–] Num10ck 6 points 1 year ago

i tried going to lemmy.com and it worked! it forwards to lenm.ee

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can a Lemmy instance be a subdomain?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Yes, sh.itjust.works is an example

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] toasteranimation 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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