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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Just as an example, really.

A lot of Masto servers I’ve seen have use the .social extension. I feel like it does lend itself to letting people know what to expect when seeing a handle that ends with .social. It’s maybe an easy connection to make that that’s some sort of social media entity.

They certainly don’t have to use that type of url, but I think it’d be cool and it makes sense for what it is.

I’ve thought that news stations should do the same, too. Like an @[email protected] would be cool and have built in verification simply because they could lock down its users to only approved people so you’d know that @[email protected] is definitely Wolf Blitzer. No need for checkmarks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

poontang.gov.social

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I have no idea who Wolf Blitzer is, but for example there are social.network.europa.eu, social.bund.de and social.kernel.org. So US can use social.gov.us

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They really went for a double subdomain and network.europa.eu is not even a thing. Also it's insufficiently Latin. curia.europa.eu and consilium.europa.eu is proper, europarl.europa.eu already makes much less sense it should be senatus.europa.eu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah. Making a subdomain like that also works. And maybe is even easier for existing domains.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

And you don't even pay for subdomains

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's how registrars start cranking up the renewal price for .social domains.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

#strongerICANN

ICANN's renewal fee is $0.18