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advice What Programming Language is useful for a domainer?

Before I even begin to address that question, there are a few topics that need to be touched upon to evaluate the available options. If it is just about accessing the web-apis of a single registrar to automate the registration process, then most scripting languages are up to the task. But if...
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- Post #111
- Oct 3, 2021
- Section: General Domain Discussion
discuss Handshake domains

We have already seen that happening with the .web TLD. And that was even with Image Online Design following ICANN process of submitting formal application and without requiring a technology as disruptive as handshake. The whole handshake concept seems like cloak and daggers. On one hand, you...
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- Post #61
- Oct 13, 2021
- Section: Domain Extensions
discuss Handshake domains

IMO, I don't see the browsers as being the main issue. It is the overall accessibility of these domains that is in question here. Lets not lose the forest for the trees. Browser accessibility is only relevant for human users, but a large portion of the internet traffic is used by (ro)bots...
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- Post #52
- Oct 12, 2021
- Section: Domain Extensions
question Why do .orgs not get more attention?

.org domains have traditionally been very popular within the software development communities. Back in the days before Github was a thing, tigris.org was the only major competition for Sourceforge.net for providing collaboration and hosting for open-source software development. All major open...
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- Post #11
- Oct 22, 2021
- Section: Domain Extensions
question Your outlook about .art domains?

.art hasn't picked up as anticipated. I don't see many studios, galleries, museums and institutions having come on board. The TLD itself didn't get much enthusiasm from individual artists as they are contended with their deviant art and artstation portfolio pages, as these sites provide better...
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- Post #5
- Oct 21, 2021
- Section: gTLD Discussion
question Selling tlds for a Trademark domain ........

If its a unique name not otherwise used outside the context of the brand, then it could be difficult to defend your intent for registering the trademarked domain. But common names that can be easily related to outside the brand in question like Aurora, Eclipse, Andromeda, Galaxy etc., then I...
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- Post #16
- Oct 18, 2021
- Section: Legal Discussion
advice What Programming Language is useful for a domainer?

Well one still needs to maintain their drop-catch scripts. I remember one guy voraciously catching any and every 2-digit expiring .io domains 10 years ago even before .io was a thing. Needless to say who that is and what he is today.
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- Post #106
- Oct 2, 2021
- Section: General Domain Discussion
discuss Handshake domains

Anyone knows what happened to Name.Space and their suite of TLDs - http://namespace.us/tlds.php ? Last I checked, they couldn't secure the rights to their own brand of .space as they had to settle for a .us domain, let alone securing the other TLDs for which they "claim" service marks.
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- Post #84
- Jan 7, 2022
- Section: Domain Extensions
Pros/Cons of other .tlds

From a webmaster point of view, there is not much difference other than a few technical capabilities like support for IDN characters, DNSSEC which are not supported on all TLDs. A single word domain in another tld is mostly sought when the double word (name+tld) is no longer available in the...
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- Post #22
- Oct 22, 2021
- Section: Domain Extensions
discuss Handshake domains

That is question - how do you make Google, Microsoft, Yahoo et al believe in this handshake Tinkerbell? Businesses have no motivation for adopting handshake unless the major search engine crawlers index their websites. The prospect of decentralization is not enough to urge businesses into...
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- Post #60
- Oct 13, 2021
- Section: Domain Extensions
discuss Handshake domains

I don't suppose I made myself clear on that point. The issue with search engine indexing stems from the inaccessibility of handshake domains by third-party crawlers especially Googlebot, Bingbot, Slurp (yahoo) et al that uses root zone to lookup domain names. Its not about ranking when the bot...
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- Post #54
- Oct 13, 2021
- Section: Domain Extensions
Showcase and Discuss ‘Handshake’ TLDs and SLDs

First of all, I am not debating the decentralization of the internet. My concerns are around the suitability of blockchain in achieving that decentralization. Do I have a better alternative? Nope, but that doesn't deter me from scrutinizing the existing choice of technology. Secondly, the...
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- Post #35
- Oct 8, 2021
- Section: Niche Domain Discussion
Showcase and Discuss ‘Handshake’ TLDs and SLDs

This. 1) Companies that are lawfully conducting their businesses have little fear of losing their domains. Despite a few corner cases where entire TLDs have been affected, the conventional gTLDs are more than protected by both technical and cross-border legal frameworks. One audience I can see...
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- Post #33
- Oct 3, 2021
- Section: Niche Domain Discussion
debate Facebook trying to steal my domains.

The way I read it, they want to buy the domain from OP and killing his negotiating acumen by hinting a legal threat. If they had a strong legal case they could have just approached the registrar through the overpaid lawyers and got the job done immediately without caring for a response from the...
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- Post #71
- Oct 2, 2021
- Section: Legal Discussion
domains Handshake domains now featured prominently in Namecheap search

I doubt if this blockchain based Handshake domains concept would ever gain traction with established businesses. People are undermining the need for central authority in favor of proprietary extensions which are only going to fragment the name resolver landscape. It would all boil down to how...
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- Post #7
- Sep 29, 2021
- Section: Domain News ≫ Handpicked