[HN Gopher] Google's .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest...
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       Google's .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest websites
        
       Author : FinnKuhn
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-11-28 19:38 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com)
        
       | rabbits_2002 wrote:
       | So then why did they sell Google Domains?
        
         | delfinom wrote:
         | Probably to cut what overhead there was in servicing users
         | directly.
         | 
         | Google is still operating TLDs as "Google Registry" since they
         | can just easy mode that part as a backend service, they just
         | push you now to go to a domain reseller.
        
         | barryrandall wrote:
         | Because Registrars are high-effort (customers are the general
         | public), low unit price, low-margin and Registries are low
         | effort (customers are only Registrars), high unit price, and
         | high margin.
        
       | timthelion wrote:
       | How does google get the right to create net TLDs? Can I create a
       | TLD?
        
         | jdiff wrote:
         | You can, if you can demonstrate the ability to maintain a gTLD
         | registry and can cough up hundreds of thousands to millions of
         | dollars.
        
           | timthelion wrote:
           | Who does that money go to?
        
             | advisedwang wrote:
             | It goes to ICANN. You can learn about their program at
             | https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program
        
         | duskwuff wrote:
         | They applied for them as part of ICANN's New gTLD program in
         | 2012. Due to overwhelming demand (and bureaucratic slowness),
         | it's been a _very_ slow process getting those applications
         | approved and implemented.
         | 
         | https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | Official announcement:
       | https://blog.google/products/registry/google-registry-meme-d...
       | 
       | I'm surprised to see that lol.meme is currently available.
        
         | operator-name wrote:
         | Gandi lists lol.meme as a premium domain for over $800. We're
         | also in the early access period where even normal domains cost
         | thousands of dollars to reserve.
        
       | all2 wrote:
       | Pre-registration seems interesting. I wonder if I'll actually get
       | the domain I tried to register.
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | Sounds on brand for Google, which was one of the first companies
       | I'd heard of to have an internal meme generator on their
       | intranet.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | As with most of the recent additions this is just so
       | insignificant in the scheme of things as anyone with whatever
       | idea has a million options for their domain and whatever ends up
       | getting promoted, and more importantly, linked to, is what will
       | work. Hardly anyone is typing the domains so it's just a
       | marketing tag.
       | 
       | Also kinda generally resent the meme culture we have created,
       | what it has come to represent. A whole generation of toxicity has
       | come from it (doing/approaching everything for the lols etc).
       | That fact that stonks whatever is listed in the official blog
       | post. The old misc cat things and whatever were fun at first but
       | what came after..blech.
        
       | pcdoodle wrote:
       | I wouldn't trust google to point to the blandest of memes let
       | alone a spicy one.
        
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