-It's the first TLD ever bought by a non-profit initiative: http://www.dothiv.org (based in Berlin, Germany)
-Their goal is to create the "red ribbon" of the digital age
-Revenues generated through the sale of these domains will be used to raise funds in support of projects that fight HIV
-Companies that buy .hiv addresses can pledge to donate a given amount of money to the initiative each time somebody visits their site, thus creating a clever system of micro-donations.
In my opinion this is an ingenious idea and one of the most creative uses of domain names I've seen so far.
Whenever people talk about new tlds, I always think mostly about names like google.con or googl.ecom. Yeah, yeah, it's cool that you can get some awesome tld, but I don't see the point. What's wrong with .com/org/net?
I would invert the question. What's wrong with more options?
The thing that really strikes me every time the new TLD subject comes up, is that there's always a percentage of people who want to forbid creation of certain TLDs for unpredictable, idiosyncratic reasons.
You're right it's just a re-purposed .TO domain, but at the time we met with the Tonic guys and came up with the idea the new TLDs hadn't happened yet.
AND we figured it was going to be better than something like .TORONTO (All these new TLDs have suffixes longer than the actual domain names...)
With uncommon domain extensions I always fear that they might jack up the rates at some point in the future, going from $20/year to $250/year or even more.
Still, my personal site and email is on a fairly obscure country TLD, and I hope they will never do something like that, being a country and all. With these new TLDs for which companies paid large amounts of money, who knows what might happen?
Does anyone know if such a bait and switch has ever happened in domain-land?
.TV was close, they launched and segregated a bunch of domains off as "premium" and charged inflated prices. Then there was (IIRC) an episode where they wanted to renew a bunch of landrush domains at "premium" prices. They also don't allow "premium" domains to switch registrars.
The new .WED rules are crazy. Year 3 renewal is $25,000. They think the next "Brad and Janet" want to be able to use BradAndJanet.WED for their wedding.
> With uncommon domain extensions I always fear that they might jack up the rates at some point in the future, going from $20/year to $250/year or even more.
I sincerely wish that this would happen with all domain registrations. Maybe not $250/yr, but $100/yr would be OK.
It wouldn't bother anybody that owns a few domains for business or even personal use.
It would slow down spamming techniques that rely on registering lots of different domains.
[+] [-] ThePhysicist|12 years ago|reply
-It's the first TLD ever bought by a non-profit initiative: http://www.dothiv.org (based in Berlin, Germany)
-Their goal is to create the "red ribbon" of the digital age
-Revenues generated through the sale of these domains will be used to raise funds in support of projects that fight HIV
-Companies that buy .hiv addresses can pledge to donate a given amount of money to the initiative each time somebody visits their site, thus creating a clever system of micro-donations.
In my opinion this is an ingenious idea and one of the most creative uses of domain names I've seen so far.
[+] [-] thaumasiotes|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] TazeTSchnitzel|12 years ago|reply
Really? I can think of at least one other, .scot, and there are surely plenty more.
[+] [-] kyyd|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Ellipsis753|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] wesleyac|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] glenstein|12 years ago|reply
The thing that really strikes me every time the new TLD subject comes up, is that there's always a percentage of people who want to forbid creation of certain TLDs for unpredictable, idiosyncratic reasons.
[+] [-] MarkTee|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Kequc|12 years ago|reply
e: Let me just take the opportunity to say the ones left are either very bizarre and hard to brand market or remember or they're being squatted.
[+] [-] karangoeluw|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] dewey|12 years ago|reply
What's up with that? Is there something I'm missing or are they just selling tonga [1] domains under the toronto label now?
[0] http://web.to/ [1] http://www.tonic.to/
[+] [-] JamilD|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] StuntPope|12 years ago|reply
AND we figured it was going to be better than something like .TORONTO (All these new TLDs have suffixes longer than the actual domain names...)
[+] [-] mhurron|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] TazeTSchnitzel|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] TazeTSchnitzel|12 years ago|reply
That said, I can't say I mind all of them. Scotland and Scottish culture will finally get their own domain - .scot - which will be great.
[+] [-] technifreak|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] computer|12 years ago|reply
Still, my personal site and email is on a fairly obscure country TLD, and I hope they will never do something like that, being a country and all. With these new TLDs for which companies paid large amounts of money, who knows what might happen?
Does anyone know if such a bait and switch has ever happened in domain-land?
[+] [-] StuntPope|12 years ago|reply
The new .WED rules are crazy. Year 3 renewal is $25,000. They think the next "Brad and Janet" want to be able to use BradAndJanet.WED for their wedding.
[+] [-] unknown|12 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] thaumaturgy|12 years ago|reply
I sincerely wish that this would happen with all domain registrations. Maybe not $250/yr, but $100/yr would be OK.
It wouldn't bother anybody that owns a few domains for business or even personal use.
It would slow down spamming techniques that rely on registering lots of different domains.
It would almost entirely halt domain squatting.
[+] [-] wikiburner|12 years ago|reply
I have a couple of domain hacks that I've been interested in that I want to use for a project.
[+] [-] garrettgrimsley|12 years ago|reply
Does not work well on mobile.
[+] [-] unknown|12 years ago|reply
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