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submitted 5 months ago by known@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Aside from the fact that it's owned by alphabet, what's so bad about .xyz?

[–] SpaceMan9000@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Insanely bad reputation, one hosting provider decided to sell .XYZ domains for 1 dollar per year.

This resulted in people with malicious intent buying up domains en masse to use it for malware delivery/phishing/whatever.

[–] bisby@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I didn't realize that. I use a .xyz for a lot of my personal stuff and didn't realize this. I wanted basically .website ... i didnt want .com or .org or anything with tld that meant something, so xyz felt nice. Also, the domain I wanted with any popular tld was insanely expensive and i got my xyz for cheap when it was brand new (not for 1 dollar though).

Maybe I need to look into new domains, but I probably will just stick with it since its primarily for personal use anyway.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago

Alphabet uses it for abc.xyz because it's funny, but the .xyz registrar is the British Team Internet/CentralNic.

Just like how they use youtu.be and goo.gl, but Alphabet doesn't own Belgium or Greenland either. At least, not yet.