Whenever I come across a new lemmy instance, it most likely has some sort of obscure TLD (.world, .ml, .ee, .me, .social just to name a few). Why aren’t there more with more common TLDs?
Whenever I come across a new lemmy instance, it most likely has some sort of obscure TLD (.world, .ml, .ee, .me, .social just to name a few). Why aren’t there more with more common TLDs?
It was a big point of contention when they first proposed the tld expansion because established brands didn’t want someone squatting on their name in and alternate tld and doing who knows what with it.
A lot of the fedi sites I think use them just for the creative play on words people come up with. Even the most common tlds are not that expensive unless it’s something with history already, on the level of less than $30/year usually.