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Posted by ssiddharth 17 hours ago

Never buy a .online domain(www.0xsid.com)
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jarek83 11 hours ago|
So this happened only because google is so big, that it can point to any website and say that it's not safe. Even if owner of a site just don't want to be in their search engine in the first place.

How on earth we ended up with this company bother anyone including those that want their services? Imagine that you could get your driving license banned because you did not buy a toyota...

fortran77 14 hours ago||
Never use a “free” domain is a better rule. Even if there were no technical or administrative issues, nobody trusts them.
kkl 14 hours ago|
I could also buy that the free domains were ran up by scammers which could have caused some of the hair trigger Safe Browsing denylisting.
OutOfHere 14 hours ago||
The logic doesn't automatically extend to other TLDs unless they too are owned by the same firm. Alternative TLDs are often preferable because they're so much cheaper than wasting money on a .com, etc.
Macha 14 hours ago|
Most alternative tlds are more expensive than .com after first year teaser rates expire though
OutOfHere 14 hours ago|||
There are various gTLD that are cheaper. For example, .top is great and among the cheapest. It however is falsely maligned by those with small brains who stereotype things.
Imustaskforhelp 14 hours ago||
I like .top domains as well but .de might make more sense.

Considering .top domains have cheap registration and renewal. To me, it does feel as if .top are very speculative. I liked to search random things in tld-list to find unique-word.<any tld> so like random.top but my past experience says that .top domains are bought quite a lot/very speculative.

If possible I like .de but I think that .top are fine too. Both are great for what its worth.

> It however is falsely maligned by those with small brains who stereotype things.

I didn't know about this, can you please elaborate more about it?

OutOfHere 14 hours ago||
> I didn't know about this, can you please elaborate more about it?

Those with small brains who stereotype things often claim that .top is used only for scams, and that if a site is using .top, it means they're a scam site. In making this foolish assertion, they confuse P(A|B) with P(B|A). To continue, see the ChatGPT share 699f272e-475c-8012-ae9a-a89bd136fd01

> it does feel as if .top are very speculative

Sure, they can be, but again it's no reason to stereotype. They can be or become whatever they want to be.

Imustaskforhelp 14 hours ago|||
https://tld-list.com/ Try looking at this website with cheapest renewal rate and removing second country TLD (so only Top level)

In my opinion, .de , .ovh , .uk or personally my country's .in (yes OVH has their own TLD that you can use)

.de is one of the more interesting domains to me personally even though I am not german.

dzonga 14 hours ago||
why not just buy a .co.xx (country) or simply .com / .net

and if hectic maybe .io

ranger_danger 16 hours ago||
One time I bought a .dev domain, which is/was run by Google, and after missing the renewal deadline by less than 24 hours, the renewal price jumped from less than $30, to $800.
Imustaskforhelp 13 hours ago|
Is this even legal?
ranger_danger 3 hours ago||
No idea, but it would cost me more to fight it than it's worth. And other people have reported similar issues but people refused to believe them, so I doubt I would get much sympathy.
dangus 16 hours ago||
I don’t know that the advice is solid in terms of never buying an alternate TLD.
swiftcoder 16 hours ago|
There are always the actual country TLDs, which (mostly) have specific regulations governing their use, and an actual government body to appeal to in case of unsolvable issues like this
tamimio 10 hours ago||
.com is definitely the gold standard, I got an .io more than a decade ago and if I would go back in time, I would just use .com, the pricing for .io been increasing for no apparent reason.
giobox 9 hours ago|
People often make the mistake of treating .io like a gTLD, when it's actually a ccTLD for the "British Indian Ocean Territory" etc. ccTLDs have always had risks, especially when they are for a really tiny region.

Similar issues to .io happened with the popularity of .tv domains, which again is a ccTLD. The government of Tuvalu sought to increase income from sales of their ccTLD and prices went up. Tuvalu is such a small nation .tv domain sales ended up making a significant part of the State's income.

Another fun example of the mess you can get into with ccTLDs was when the UK left the EU. All UK registered .eu domain names were cancelled following the UK exit from the bloc.

gTLDs generally have some degree of insulation from State-level politics. ccTLDs permit the nation or territory they represent much more say in how they are priced and who they are sold to.

tamimio 8 hours ago||
Interesting, thanks for the info, definitely didn’t know that back in ~2012, but lessons learned, only .com or .org I have been buying in the past years.
cmsp12 16 hours ago||
honestly all of these weird tld are expensive in the long term i dont see the point of getting them
elAhmo 16 hours ago||
Another case of Google extorting users and showing mafia-like behaviour.
metalliqaz 14 hours ago|
Top of HN. Well, I guess you could say that Radix's strategy to give away domains backfired spectacularly.
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