Today I Learned @lemmy.world TheOneWithTheHair @lemmy.world 12mo ago

TIL that .sucks is a valid web domain. As I post this, reddit.sucks is available. spez.sucks is available. trump.sucks is registered

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Apparently, they've been available since 2014.

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Funny, but not >$2000 a year funny.
- Novelty TLD’s are ridiculous with their pricing
  
  What do you mean? Work.sucks only costs 32 thousand dollars! What a steal!
I can’t believe it, primus.sucks isn’t an active site?
- Probably cause it costs at minimum like 200$ to get the domain
  
  You are right, there is no way Primus could afford that.
- I am the frizzle fry
- As in the transformer god?
spez.sucks/fat_cock
- Spez.sucks/the_rigid_cock_of_Satan.
  
  Hey this is fun.
  
  Ain't no REST for the wicked
- Sucking fat cock is an asset
Who is selling this, like who owns .something's? Can anyone just set up their own?
- Currently, to start a new top level domain, you apply to ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, pay a fee of something like $185,000, and then become the registrar for that TLD.
  
  Very interesting thank you. Does it work similar to federation wherein if ICANN don't recognise you you cannot be linked to? Or is this organisation where the buck stops with the internet.
  
  Are the likes of tor sites registered there?
  
  If I'm understanding right, you can buy "twitter.sucks" for $200 and you own that, regardless of who owns .sucks as a TLD? Or is it a rental? You can separately purchase ALL ".sucks" for 185k? What happens if the owner of .sucks dies or goes to prison, do you also lose "twitter.sucks"?
If anyone wants to go ahead and register these please send me the $25 and we can have a five minute phone call in which all I do is insult and belittle you and we'll call it even.
- Don't tempt me with a good time
- Turns out its two orders of magnitude more expensive than that.
It costs like 200$, like it is extremely ridiculously overpriced.
- javascript.sucks costs 2 grand for a year lol
  
  Really.sucks is showing as $1M for me
inb4 someone makes reddit.sucks redirect to reddit
- Have it redirect here.
  
  Post link on reddit
  
  ??
  
  Profit!!
- Too expensive for your average memer.
  
  Then we need the elite memers on this one
There are some wild ones out there. I got a .wtf domain a while back. I regret nothing.
- wtf/
- I've got one .ninja domain.
@TheOneWithTheHair that is one of the amazing ideas concerning the new gTLDs program by ICANN. I wonder what was the original idea behind it...
- The original idea was $$$
- There was some intense controversy behind it, same thing with .exposed (for obvious reasons). It's shitty because it's extremely overpriced, like 200$ or so for a year of registration. The company behind is quite scummy and advertises it to companies to buy it for PR purposes, so some buy it and redirect to their feedback page.
Reminds me of when usuck.com was a thing you could get free subdomains under, only this is more official and 100% less free.
- My favorite was free email addresses at penis.com
  
  I hadn't heard of that one, that's great.
biden.sucks is available. Maybe Trump sucks wasn't purchased by republicans or maybe they just overlooked this opportunity. trump.sucks and www.trump.sucks go nowhere, so I figured it was a move to block someone from getting it.
- That's the only reason those domains exist. It's essentially a ploy to get companies and vain individuals to pay tens of thousands a year. It's just a scam.
  
  So apparently biden.sucks is available for $2182 per year. Same goes for reddit.sucks. I actually thought it was gonna be waaay higher!
- Now if only people worth my time gave a shit.
Hmm, can't nslookup the trump.sucks domain record.
- It's not registered according to ICANN https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup
  
  The requested domain was not found in the Registry or Registrar's RDAP server.
you guys know that .sucks is selling shovels, hard, right? you're not actually this stupid, are you?
- What do you mean by that?
  
  oh god we really are this stupid
  
  who gets rich during a gold rush? these annoying cunts have found yet another way to profiteer off ur hate

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