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Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain (blog.google)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is going to result into an incredible amount of domain hacks (like, idk, fish.ing or rid.ing or eat.ing)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fuck.ing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Poop.ing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I wonder if people would go for:

shit.ing or shitting?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Namecheap says its an invalid tld.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Except google handed their domain business over to square space.

edit: and their page wont even load for me.