Comment on Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs?

cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not 1996 anymore?!! Why didn’t somebody tell me? My license is probably expired.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One day it was just 1997. Damnedest thing, there was no vote or anything. Frankly I think it was a bad move.

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    • cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep, straight from Macarena to Tubthumping and nobody even noticed.

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      • tburkhol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I hate that my brain played little riffs of both of those songs for me just by seeing their titles.

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      • aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That was an upgrade, imo

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No way dude it’s gonna be 1996 forever… Forever… Forever…

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  • 5redie8@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shit, gotta get my car inspected too

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can buy .zip if you want to now… that still doesn’t sit right with me

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  • cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m still waiting for .rar so I can buy unregistered.rar, which is the way it’s meant to be.

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    • danielton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m waiting for .7z because it doesn’t nag me to register it.

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    • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Being the registered owner of unregistered.rar really doesn’t seem like the way it’s meant to be

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    From what I’ve heard, .zip is basically only used for malware

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    • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Similarly, I’ve never seen a .xyz that wasn’t used for altchans or sketchy porn sites

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      • SatyrSack@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        sopuli.xyz is a sizeable Lemmy instance

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      • DrQuint@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For me, that was .dance and .moe.

        And then there’s .ninja which so far has been strictly small web animations.

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      • Intralexical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ABC.xyz?

        malware

        Actually, yeah, that basically fits.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh, there is a website where somebody created Doom with CSS and that’s a .xyz but that tracks, because it’s 3D

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      • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        One of the teachers at my faculty has his academic webpage, including course materials, on an .xyz domain.

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    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m on lemmy.zip, has been swell.

      The whole zip malware hype never came to be. Try it out, your Outlook isn’t replacing xyz.zip with a link.

      I guess you could manually create a link, but those have never been safe before either as the text can be different from the URL.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think the complaint is it’s just needlessly confusing and ambiguous.

        Like everyone would obviously have an issue with it if they introduced a TLD of .txt or .jpg so why is this acceptable?

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  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    .app has been a thing for a while as well…

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  • DrQuint@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, that domain screams scam emails to me.

    here, mr boomer target, click this file

    it’s a link that redirects to something else

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was surprised it took almost an entire day before appleinvoice.zip got snatched up🤣 I wonder how much it’s worth to some scammer.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are people who use (regex) blocking for the zip TLD and that other one that google released with it, for the reason that they can be very deceptive.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not that hard. Because people out there are still buying domains like tomandkatesfamouspizzacincinattiohio.net

  Please don’t work please don’t work.

  I have a few .coms that aren’t random letters, that are less than 8 characters. Got em mostly in the last decade.

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  • ggppjj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I own candidvideosofouremployeesjerkingoff.com.

    Can’t believe it hadn’t been nabbed yet.

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