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My personal favorite is .diamonds, strictly because it gets me the best personal website domain ever:

(My name is Andrew Diamond)

Sorry to hear about that, because if you troll the zone files enough you'll find .diamonds is a favorite for piss fetishists

… how would you know that?! Hahahahah

If you troll the zone files, you’ll see the whole internet is a favorite for a whole variety of things.

but why

I suspect you mean trawl, not troll

Troll actually means a similar thing!

OED confirms, TIL! Thanks!

And that's why Internet trolling is called that -- back in the Usenet days it was "trolling for newbies". Dragging your baited line around and seeing who'd bite.

In this case troll makes even more sense as it involves dragging bait around rather than nets.

Does it matter? I'm sure 99% of .com is porn, but it doesn't seem to bother any of the stogy large corporations that have .com domains.

If I were Mr. Diamond, my opinion would be "why should I change, they're the ones who suck."

.bolton

I have http://edd.xxx/ as my personal domain, which I’m sure is not doing great things for my SEO (or accessibility from heavily controlled corporate networks!), but hey, people remember it. And I have another more sanitised domain that I give out when needed…

I own max.bond, but I've not done anything with it quite yet!

caleb.tennis checking in

That’s the opposite of my situation: I have a tonne of ideas, but .pastuszak ain’t happening any time soon!

Did you all pay $185k for these?

My domain is like $8 a year from cloudflare

I paid an embarrassing amount of money (as I purchased it on the secondary market), but not even 1% of $185k. .bond was originally created for Bond University who presumably did pay something like that; they sold the TLD to ShortDot, and now it's marketed to people selling bonds.

how much do these unique TLDs cost?

Back in the early 2000s, I was the (very short tenured) leaseholder of iam.coop, until I fell short of their registration requirements.

Were you simply being uncooperative?

(Couldn't resist)

Mike D enters the chat

Interestingly, I discovered a few years ago that my first name is a TLD.

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