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That site just made me realise that my surname (kitchen) has now become a .gtld

Someone else clearly figured this out before me though and firstname.surname has gone already.

What would I have done with it though? I've already discovered through having a .cc domain that there are many companies, websites and forms that simply don't accept unexpected domains.

For example, in the past I've spent several days on the phone with a business insurance company trying to get the policy emailed to the company email address and failing because somewhere in their system emails only get routed to 'valid' addresses where 'valid' includes known domain names. The only solution was buying a .com as well to use in such circumstances.

You should get your-email-system-is-broken.com to give out addresses on in those cases.

And they won't accept it because they didn't expect any dashes in the domain name!

This is a big point. The internet probably has a million systems that have a regexp somewhere listing all the top level domain names that were valid at the time, and half of them aren't maintained and will stay broken forever.

That being said, email validation needs to check for trivial issues (i.e., have you entered a non-empty string? does it have a @ somewhere?) and the proper validation happens if a verification email gets delivered or not.

To be honest, ^.+@.+$ is probably all you need, along with a confirmation email.

A simpler, yet equivalent regex : .@.

Also good: [^@]@[^@]

Addresses can contain multiple @s legally, though, right?

Even Mobile Safari doesn't recognize the new gTLDs: typing in dumb.domains takes you to search.

Buying those new domains only makes sense to reserve them, using them really won't make sense for a few years.

Well, that was hilarious. I now own crap.lighting. I think the web page will be a black background, and that's it.

I know doge is tired at this point, but such.education still made me chuckle.

such.education/very-learn

  shitty.enterprises
  butt.construction
  wank.academy
  bum.careers

So this might be my new favorite website. (also, Andrew WK oughtta register party.institute)

frisky.limo

I thought about buying it for a moment.

I thought about frisky.pics. It's a pretty great name for some sexting snapchat competitor.

balls.pics

I saw 'butt.pink'

I reckon that might be a NSFW website.

Are any serious websites using the new TLDs?

I guess they will be very soon. Why else have Google, Amazon and Microsoft applied for that many TLDs? It'll be like with .io and .ly.

They did it just to be safe.

That might be true for some. Especially Microsoft seems to have only registered for their brands. But Google applied for .baby, .books, .movie, .music and many other non-brand TLDs.

Arms race. Get in early so others don't get the "good" ones. :)

Well, I own http://tease.red/ and http://teaser.link/ redirected to TextTeaser. tease.red may correspond to some porn cams because of tease. But I want it because I want it to be read as "teasered".

Like the text was teasered after it was summarized by TextTeaser.

I also own jolo.sexy. Just for fun though.

.scot will likely be very popular in Scotland, especially if this year's referendum sees a Yes vote.

A much better implementation than my own crappy.domains. I assume they are generated from a list. Would be nice to be able to pick the TLD you want to generate domains for.

  slippery.contractors

Good luck explaining this to the common man:

You: "Visit my website, it's fashion.boutique"

Guy: "dot com?"

You: "No, dot boutique"

Guy: "huh?"

normal guy: go to this forum slash.dot

average guy: /..? .com? wut?

normal guy: ... go to http://goo.gl/4oVmvo

I'm ashamed, but I grabbed shitty.recipe.

I put most of my bachelor frog friends to shame, so maybe it will be fun.

Some of these are awesome: literally.guitars and crap.gift would make awesome e-commerce names !

doodle.pics could be your startup name right there.

I get the impression if I registered briansrecipes.com I would get better traffic than brian.recipes . Or am I wrong? So much of this is irrelevant since people google rather than type in urls

Where can I find a list of all of the new .gtlds?

https://gist.github.com/peteryates/7132974

some are missing like .gmo

http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-string...

When I heard about the new TLDs I thought it was the opportunity to get my very own butt domain.

Now I own butt.ventures

A dream came true ;_;

Just bought crap.today

HA! I just thought of it. What are you going to do with it?

At the very least it has a practical use for marketing anti-constipation medicines...

very.photos is $24.99. Seems doge related and I'm surprised if someone doesn't take it soon.

I had these turn up.

party.marketing

crooked.agency

wow.bargains

I can see this being a cybersquatters dream.

lady.international was a favorite for me

Whoever this guy is, he had money to throw on these names. These new GTLDs are a waste

He didn't buy any of them, it's just an affiliate frontend for a registrar

wow.buzz is 18,480 USD

And there is the .XYZ!

Must... resist... urge... to buy... penis.computer domain...

useless.domains

pirate.ceo happens to be available

and tit.management

tit.directory also seems to be available.

Lots of pirate names are still available:

https://www.gandi.net/domain/buy/result/

E.g.: pirate.bar, pirate.academy, and pirate.dating.

I think pirate.watch is the best of them. Could either be a streaming site or a site monitoring piracy.

Or both at once! That would make data collection considerably easier.

Wow, I didn't even know some of these existed. .ninja and .coffee are TLDs?!

The .ceo registrar lays it on rather thick: http://nic.ceo/

> dotCEO is for dotDoers, dotGrowers, dotInnovators, dotMovers and dotShakers only

> dotCEO says more in three letters than an entire website on dotCOM

From some drone's^WCEO's blog:

> .com doesn’t say much these days other than ‘I got here first’. A .CEO address on the other hand adds value. It communicates power and authority. When I send people an email from my @JeremySchoemaker.CEO people know that it’s coming from ‘the top’. When people visit my .CEO identity page I know they know I’m a professional who takes himself seriously. It’s credible. To my mind no address does a better job at demonstrating thought leadership.

Man, this dotCEO business is wankery turned up to 11. I haven't cringed so hard in days.

coincidentally the first one i saw was crooked.ceo for 19.90$

It doesn't even make sense. It gets the hierarchy of email addresses completely turned inside out. What do you put in front of the @ in your email address? ceo@cocacola.ceo ? That's just weird.

JeremySchoemaker@JeremySchoemaker.CEO

squatting.soon

crap.zone

('Nuff said.)

fart.management

Just a few:

balls.uno sexy.education crooked.plumbing such.construction fart.diamonds

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