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Wait until you hear all the bad things associated with .com domains!

.su is unmatched

I think .TK can give every other TLD a run for its money since domain registration is free and it is a haven for scams of every sort.

ha! i do wonder what the most wholesome domain names are.

I imagine .edu has to be up there.

I imagine you've never been screwed by a university.

.edu is associated with the greatest source of debilitating debt the world may have ever seen, all to prop up a jobs program for the administrative class in higher education and to pile more billions of dollars into their endowments.

.cz is certainly up there, at least under current nic.cz: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZ.NIC

They strongly push for DNSSEC, supports a bunch of OS projects, etc.

neat!! this is great to know :3

Non-profit Irish charities using org.ie?

I’ve seen some of the Russian sites using .it domain. -it is a suffix for many verbs in a (single,present) form, so basically the site name answers the question “what does this site do?”, like vesel.it - provides fun.

Nauru domains (.nu) were popular in Sweden for a similar reason, it means "now".

Did you support putting Tokelau on the map with a free .tk domain?

The trivia folks have a lot of .fud to memorize nowadays

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_d...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domai...

.bs has nothing to do with the bahamas either (a pun well before the ftx shenanigans)

Right, so I get that this is a joke, but it's a content-free one. What are the bad things you think are associated with .com domains, exactly? Nothing comes to mind like what the linked article discusses about .io. As far as I know, .com is an entirely boring generic namespace, that doesn't have the same kinds of security/colonialism issues that the link says that .io has.

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