[Tech] Most popular Top-Level Domains

The Lupa crawler now displays most-popular TLD (Top-Level Domains) in
the geminispace by number of registered domains and no longer by
number of capsules
<gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi>. This is
because popular hosting service using subdomains (like
flounder.online) tweak the statistics too much if you count capsules.

[The definition of "registered domains" is taken from Mozilla's Public
Suffix List <https://publicsuffix.org/>, which is not authoritative
but is better than nothing.]

With this, we have currently:

* com: 65 domains
* net: 42 domains
* org: 40 domains
* space: 25 domains
* xyz: 20 domains
* me: 13 domains
* club: 11 domains
* dev: 10 domains
* uk: 9 domains
* de: 9 domains
* eu: 8 domains
* ch: 7 domains
* info: 5 domains
* io: 5 domains
* moe: 4 domains
* tk: 4 domains
* site: 4 domains
* example: 4 domains
* se: 4 domains
* online: 4 domains

I suspect that many people choose a TLD for their capsule just because
it "looks cool" or because it is the cheapest at this time. But pay
attention, not all TLD have the same rules and when a dispute occurs,
the choice of TLD can be very important. The EFF (Electronic Frontier
Foundation) made a very good report about that "Which Internet
Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?"
<https://www.eff.org/wp/which-internet-registries-offer-best-protection-dom
ain-owners>. Read
it before choosing a name for your capsule!

You may think "OK, what's the problem if .me depends on montenegrin
law and .com on US law, I do not host political content, p0rn or file
sharing, so I risk nothing" but this is not true, any name can get you
the unwelcome attention of lawyers, for instance because they find
your name too close from their trademarks.

hum.. interesting, I use metalune.xyz.. is that troublesome?

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 04:24:58PM +0100,
 metalune <metalune at mailbox.org> wrote 
 a message of 1 lines which said:

> hum.. interesting, I use metalune.xyz.. is that troublesome?

Much less than .space. Space is one of the TLD that accepted to remove
a name by simple request from MPAA (Hollywood lobby). No need for a
court order or even a private arbitrator.

Anyway, when you register a domain, you have to click a checkbox "I
have read the terms of use and I accept them". I'm sure everyone have
indeed read and understood the ToU :-}

 f?vr. 2021, 16:20 de stephane at sources.org:

> With this, we have currently:
>
> * com: 65 domains
> ...
>
I'm all on my own with .mg then :D

> I suspect that many people choose a TLD for their capsule just because
> it "looks cool" or because it is the cheapest at this time. But pay
> attention, not all TLD have the same rules and when a dispute occurs,
> the choice of TLD can be very important. The EFF (Electronic Frontier
> Foundation) made a very good report about that "Which Internet
> Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?"
> <https://www.eff.org/wp/which-internet-registries-offer-best-protection-d
omain-owners>. Read
> it before choosing a name for your capsule!
>
There is a huge exception for EU nationals, pretty much all the registries 
are GDPR compliant right now (with the exception of .us obviously) when it 
comes to WHOIS suppression, but of course, that doesn't protect from some 
of the other shady practices.

With trademark disputes, you can be at the mercy of the local laws which 
could be quite lax or heavily in favour of the trademark holder no matter 
how ridiculous their claim may be.
> You may think "OK, what's the problem if .me depends on montenegrin
> law and .com on US law, I do not host political content, p0rn or file
> sharing, so I risk nothing" but this is not true, any name can get you
> the unwelcome attention of lawyers, for instance because they find
> your name too close from their trademarks.
>
There is, of course, geopolitical issues that can get your name cancelled, 
some ccTLD registries are run by foreign entities which could get you 
stuck in the middle of a ccTLD dispute, or the country can invoke local 
requirements at any time to favour their citizens.

I have a .sg domain and I'm hesitant to put much of anything on there 
because I've heard some stories of what happens when they just decide they 
don't like what you have to say.

-K?vin

Hi!

On 14/02/21 04:20, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> the choice of TLD can be very important. The EFF (Electronic Frontier
> Foundation) made a very good report about that "Which Internet
> Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?"
> <https://www.eff.org/wp/which-internet-registries-offer-best-protection-d
omain-owners>. Read
> it before choosing a name for your capsule!

Interesting. No mentioning of my .bio domain. I should definitely do some 
more digging here.
Anyway, thanks for the links you provided!

Cheers
Jan

--
Professor: "A toast to Leela. She showed us it's wrong to eat certain
things."

gemini://jan.bio

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 05:20:15PM +0100,
 K?vin <lists at gph.dk> wrote 
 a message of 43 lines which said:

> I'm all on my own with .mg then :D

Indeed :-)

lupa=> SELECT RegisteredDomains.name FROM RegisteredDomains,Tlds WHERE tld 
= Tlds.id AND Tlds.name = 'mg';
 name  
-------
 oh.mg
(1 row)