[poink]

This is cute, but I absolutely do not care about buying a omg.lol URL for $20/yr, and I'm not trying to be a hater because the concept is fine, but anybody who falls into this same boat should know this is explicitly "not for them"

[trinix912]

While I'm usually one of those who complain about subscription services, $20 per year is not considerably more than registering a .com with the whois protection. Given that you get a registered, valid domain name that you have control over, it's not a bad deal. Also, it does help filter out low effort spam, especially if they decided to add a limit to allow only n registrations per a credit card should it become a problem.

We're always discussing something along "if you're not paying for it, you're the product" in the context of social media, yet now we're presented a solution and criticize that it's not free.

You can also roll your own webring/directory for free on your ISP's guest area (if they still offer that) and there's no significant network effect to url.town yet that would make you miss out if you don't pay.

[reddalo]

> ISP's guest area (if they still offer that)

What is (was) it? I can't find anything with a search (too many unrelated results).

[deadbabe]

Just to be clear, $20/year is roughly one Starbucks drink per fiscal quarter.

[poink]

Are you suggesting the market for omg.lol URLs intersects with the people who like to buy burnt coffee?

[crossroadsguy]

This :D

X is just one cappuccino, Y is just 3.5 bagels, Z costs not more than a pint, A costs almost as much as a nice meal … and so on. God's sake! :)

[benrutter]

I hadn't realised that this was tied to omg.lol until your comment but now I'm confused. If it's from the omg.lol community, how come the address isn't something like url.omg.lol? (ie. it's a community around a domain, why isn't that doimain used here?)

[endemic]

I think I pay around $100/year for my dirt cheap self-hosted stuff. So I mean you _can_ do it yourself, but $20 is pretty reasonable.