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.ing TLD now generally available

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These new tlds are a racket.

If you can, get access to czds.icann.org and look over the zone files for .ing and .meme.

No one is registering domains for anything other than trademark protection and speculative squatting.

A lot of money spent for nothing.

Capitalism breeds innovation. /s

Good thinking comrade. Enjoy people's glorious RusNet that is most popular.

A lot of money is right! First word I tried is priced in the thousands!

> trash.ing

> Your domain is available!

> Premium name

> 1,625.00 USD

Pfft that's mere chump change.

`sell.ing` is available for the princely sum of €103,510.57

drugdeal.ing was cheap, though...

> A lot of money spent for nothing.

Unfortunately, noth.ing appears to be taken.

Given that someth.ing is €3100 a year, it was probably very literally "a lot of money spent for noth.ing"

somebody registered squatt.ing

TBH, i enjoy it. Or rather, i sort of wish domains didn't exist - and the flood of these names helps devalue the entire land. Or so i ignorantly assume.

Is there a problem i'm not seeing?

The most annoying thing about them, that's seemed to increase over time, is that for 'premium' names the renewals are the same cost as 'buying' the domain.

At least if you manage to snag a .com/.net/etc, you'll have low yearly renewal fees.

Is the CZDS open to individuals? I'd like to register and go over the files in an individual capacity, but seems like people have to send requests over to registry operators, which they may or may not grant.

You can register as an individual; but I believe they want a valid phone number and mailing address, and a reason for access.

The requests are mostly automatically approved but there are some outliers who take weeks to approve or will reject the request without more info like faxing an ID.

Requests for all these new TLDs sponsored by Google seem to be approved instantly for what it's worth.

any way to get the list and prices of all the "premium" domains that are not registered but have a custom (high) price to register/renew?

Did anyone else notice that the top of the page says "gett.ing a new domain", but the domain they decided to use instead was "get.ing"? I imagine that whoever picked it expected people to pronounce it "get dot ing", but it just looks like "geting" to me, and I don't even know what that means.

I've heard advice that when trying to name a product, it's a good idea to check Urban dictionary before finalizing a name to make sure you don't accidentally pick something crude. It looks like "gete" is mostly okay though, so they may have gotten lucky here.

(edited "get.ting" to "get.ing" because even when this is what I wanted to talk about I apparently subconsciously refuse to type "geting" as a domain)

Even better - they also have gett.ing, which redirects to get.ing.

That feels super backwards! Why not have the typo redirect to the correct spelling?

They should consider an alternative like fetch.ing, buy.ing, or register.ing.

Geting is swedish for wasp. Would be a cool domain name, shame it is taken.

> I've heard advice that when trying to name a product, it's a good idea to check Urban dictionary before finalizing a name to make sure you don't accidentally pick something crude

Yeah, imagine picking something like Go Daddy for the name of your company.

"get" is a common second level domain used by Google for all their TLDs. Look at get.app, get.dev, get.zip, get.mov, get.meme, etc.

ICANN has completely failed their mandate and needs to be destroyed and replaced.

Domain names in general are a flawed idea.

Had public/private key pair cryptography been further along at the beginning of the web, I think we would have wound up with something like public keys that users add a nickname to. Similar to what we already do with phone numbers, but "ownership" locked to a private key.

What happens when you lose your private key? I don't love it, but I'm glad that my domain names are just an entry in a database somewhere that a human can change if necessary. It's a tradeoff I'm willing to make.

Your keys could still be stored in a third party vault.

If your vault goes under, you get a new address and tell people to update their links, just like if you lose a domain.

The key difference being that domains don't get lost, especially if you avoid country TLDs.

Domain names do get lost if you forget to renew or your payment info isn't up to date.

You could argue that's caused by carelessness, but so is losing a private key.

Actually, good point. But that is solvable with better registrar UX. For example, I run a registrar that offers free subdomains, and I'm planning to add support for a long term guarantee, by registering the apex domains for the max time (10 years) and renewing every year.

There are ways to securely backup private keys.

Loosing your domain name is a far worse. Not only will you not get it back, but whoever owns it now will get all your web traffic. In contrast even if you loose the private key, you could continue to serve any static assets signed by that key, and create a new private key for future assets.

There would also likely end up being plenty of "phone-book" services where you could go and provide a new private key for your company. We already have some of these: Google (Maps), Yelp, Yellow Pages, etc.

I'm curious what part of ICANN's mandate is a failure. My understanding is that introducing new TLDs was part of it.

> 7. The Creation of New gTLDs. The Green Paper suggested that during the period of transition to the new corporation, the U.S. Government, in cooperation with IANA, would undertake a process to add up to five new gTLDs to the authoritative root.

https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/statement-polic...

Maybe there are too many new TLDs?

This lame google registry page just reminds me how pissed I am at them for selling Google domains.

Side note they sold it to Squarespace who doesn't support .ing domains.

Ing having bank.ing is the best one.

Better than my idea that they’d get ing.ing.

Or www.ing

They don't have ideal.ing though, waiting for the first scams to start popping up.

iDEAL is the payment system in the Netherlands. And they use ideal.ing.nl for it.

How many more gTLDs does the world need? Honestly? Perhaps we could add one for every single letter in the Latin alphabet, what.a goo.d ide.a! Let's also add one for all common English suffixes too: .ion would be great to have, as well as .ed and both .ally and .ly exist already. And there are also non-English languages, too!

Of course, .too, .already, .enough, and .please would be amazing additions as well.

I wonder if this TLD being available now will increase the number of scammers and fraudsters scamming clients of ING bank. On the one hand, having quite strong association with the bank name right in the domain name surely must increase trustworthiness of the link, but then the people who bother to read URLs in the first place are probably more likely to notice the scam anyway...

I have no doubt this TLD will be used for phish.ing

  <bank name>.bank.ing   
  <bank name>.pay.ing  
  <credit card>.charg.ing
  <email service>.renew.ing  
  <online store>.shipp.ing
  <delivery service>.track.ing
  etc.

Worse, there will be some number of companies stupid enough to pay for and start using .ing for legitimate reasons further confusing people as to which URLs are legitimate.

Well, if you try to register 'rain.ing', it's a premium domain, so it's €14k a year. Not today, thanks.

Don't worry if it's not your rainy day, "How exciting! sunshin.ing is available."

Naturally, someone already registered "fuck.ing"

Interesting that surf.ing was captured by a legit, cool & local event!

no-fuck.ing was still available at the time of this comment though.

So are "pegg.ing" and "rimm.ing". But don't worry, you can still have "fist.ing".

New domains rolling out with 'reserved' words that cost $50K+ direct from the registrar. Who is really buying these at this point with so main domain extensions available?

Congratulations to Google on having finally realized their rent-collecting dream. As the company discovers that this revenue stream requires almost no work, I look forward to the slow degradation of every other business line as the company transitions over the next twenty years to 'digital landlord' status.

Namecheap is telling me that any of the `.ing` tlds i'm looking for are $13k... sorry, but f-off!

Is it surprising that Adobe has sign.ing ?

Not at all. I believe they also have snapped up:

WeCantWritePatchesOrStableCodeToSaveOurFuckingLives.ing.

They're really good at removing features that used to work, though. Or just partially breaking them.

My favorite part is the ubiquitous vulns.

They do have a business around e-signatures related to the prevalence of pdf for electronic documents. If you go to Adobe.com it is one of their top level menu items "PDF and E-signatures" for instance so seems relatively important to them.

Adobe Sign is a product

it's only like $300k. Anyone want to go in on .js with me?

I wonder if 2 letters are reserved for potential ccTLDs. As such just need to form a new country... Easiest way might be to secession.

b.ing is 100k+ a year

Gofundme missed an opportunity by not snagging begg.ing

It sure must be nice to be gifted the right to sell these domains for any extortionate price you like... I looked at think.ing and it's a cool 36k eur per year at Namecheap, 43k at (those scumlords) Godaddy.

Pssshhhhh, what absolutely transparent grifting.

How exciting! interest.ing is available.

as is excit.ing :)

> How exciting!

work.ing

£102,986.75 £102,986.75/yr when you renew

A steal.

Pretty cool TLD, I like this one.

This is fuck.ing terrible

I'm waiting until .shit is available. Maybe I'll be able to afford a place there.

Unfortunately shitt.ing is already taken but defecat.ing is available and it's only like €23.

Don't worry, .computer is already available.

There is .sucks

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