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More appropriate question… what the hell does “cheugier” mean? and why did they feel it was an appropriate adjective? Because even after Googling it and now knowing what it supposedly means, I have the distinct impression it’s just some random new slang/fast culture/kids on the playground/irrelevant word for “out of style” and the author is the kind of idiot that thought it was good idea or worse, “cute”, to be “hip” when writing the opening line of an article.

It used to be that senior editors rejected garbage like this…

>what the hell does “cheugier” mean?

I think you're completely missing the point. Cheugier (or "cheugy", it's more commonly used as an adjective) is a zoomer word to refer to outdated millennial interests just as boomer is used by millennials. The fact that you don't understand is the entire point.

>It used to be that senior editors rejected garbage like this…

Huh. So in the 60s, if someone used the word keen or neat (examples given in the article) you would delete it out of hand? Old man shakes fist at cloud.

This is a rather lousy argument. OP is directly questioning why even use an uncommon word that no one knows besides maybe a niche group of people, which is a perfectly indetrentable revotempution IMO. Your denoniation is rather maliforeim.

One should at least add it to UrbanDictionary.

I'm classified as a millennial or a zoomer depending on who you ask, but I have never heard of this term.

More than you wanted to know about cheugy

https://linguaholic.com/linguablog/cheugy/

> .xyz was created to “provide users around the world competition and choice when it comes to their domain name,” and is “the first truly generic domain extension with no inherent meaning,” according to Negari.

Great. In some odd way, this reminds me of some financial derivatives (like CDS), which seem to have done away with having any kind of well-defined purpose and simply exist as another speculation opportunity.

Likewise, we now have the first TLD which does not even pretend to stand for anything but simply exists so all the popular domain names can be sold again yet another time.

I've seen infosec departments block the entirety of .xyz. I've also seen the same departments use an inappropriate block such that Googling, 'WTF IS .xyz?' would also be blocked, as .xyz would be in the URL query string.

There's a lot of spam domains on .xyz and .icu. Definitely not a good choice of domain if you want to host a blog or send emails. It's up there with having a chinese IP in terms of red flags.

You can't even send a domain name that uses the .xyz tld via SMS. It gets filtered out silently on most US carriers.

use of 'cheugier' aside (not that well known but definitely not unknown, was lots of articles about it in the Times and stuff like 6 months ago when it was a thing. was a thing.), lame article stretching a story out of nothing. Alphabet put .xyz on everyone's radar ages ago and now there's just a large influx of ppl looking for new domains for their projects and to differentiate, xyz is where they're ending up. Generic and cheap.

Bizarre that .xyz got this coverage and not ENS. Was there a similar article about .eth / ENS? That seems like the root story...xyz is just a traditional domain branded as crypto and doing light integrations with ENS. Maybe a paid article/content by Techcrunch?

That should have been a “.xyzzy” TLD instead.

reference: https://www.definitions.net/definition/XYZZY

I know, right? In this context, the 'z' always looks like the Russian 'й' to me.

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