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[TUTORIAL] - Make Your Own Top-Level Domain Name (like .com, .org, and .net)

Loralighte on May 06, 2020

So you want to make your own .com or .org, and let's say you don't want to make a private one only you can use because that is exhausting (because ...
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Karan Gandhi

This is the tutorial I always wanted. Congrats. You win the internet. :)

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MistakingManx

I want someone to create the .os domain, imagine it.
Whoever made it could sell something like mac.os or i.os to Apple, or make their own operating system and it would look really cool!

Not to mention randos buying it too, even though you probably wouldn't get money from people buying domains.. you could just buy it first though, right?

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Tracey

Looks like there was a recent discussion on Reddit about why there is no .os domain:

Two letter TLD:s are reserved for ccTLD:s, and there are no country that uses the abbreviation OS.

So it's not possible to get a .os domain, and it won't be for the foreseeable future.

Just wait until I start the kingdom of Osistan...

Lol.

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Tracey

Omg yes please! That would be perfect.

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Ivan Jeremic • Edited

domains are nonsense and this is the best example how centralized the web is, we need to get rid of domains, unique ICONS/QR Codes should replace them.

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Uthman

Bro what the hell are you on about?!?!? Imagine having to browse the internet by clicking on an icon, and scams will become much more powerful as they can use the same icon. Lets say microsoft scams, instead of you being able to read the domain for a scam, you have to look for one pixel that doesn't look right. And with qr codes, imagine having to point a picture at a webcam or get out your phone every time you want to send a damn email. That sounds like

nonsense

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Ivan Jeremic

Nobody said that icons should not be clickable🤣

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Uthman

You clearly didn't read what I said, imagine a scam with the same logo of a popular website and instead it has like 1 pixel that is different so now it is even harder avoid, including in higher res images. Think about if you need to zoom in on the icon every time you want to check for a sus link.

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Ivan Jeremic

Imagine a link text or a button to a website that goes to a different website… nothing new here.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

I tried .srs but it seems not to exist yet.

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Loralighte

Well get roughly $600,000 prepared, and you might own it!

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Areeb ur Rub

And why does ICANN charge so much for this and where does this money goes, I mean who are the top level sellers is it a country or something else

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official.page

I was searching for it and found the results on top of the search results; people buy .page as well, as we bought it for all, an open source for making pages inside.

I liked the content, and yes, it was full of information about having your own TLD.
It's not easy, but it could be not hard to play on; when we decide to get over to it, we may reach with our ongoing efforts, there's never no until we quit.

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Brandon

Best article on dev dot to.

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Raghu Ranganathan

Fancy seeing you here. Nice article!

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Loralighte

Well, I been writing here for a while and considering on getting back to it sooner or later

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Pawel Sekuratywny

It takes several years to get that top level domain, but if you have got the money then maybe it's worth it.

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leviakbar

nice info 😁

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Juan Pérez Sánchez

What about .loli domain?