Whenever I come across a new lemmy instance, it most likely has some sort of obscure TLD (.world, .ml, .ee, .me, .social just to name a few). Why aren’t there more with more common TLDs?

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    1 year ago

    Our .fyi predates the lemmy instance by a few months. The owner thought the domain was funny and bought it a while back, but had nothing to do with it so it just got used when we decided to get a lemmy instance up. So I assume at least some of them are random domains people already happened to own anyways.

    But the main reason is the one people already mentioned and its because they are cheap and you can get funny names.

    .ml, .ee and .me are howevet not obscure. They are country TLDs (Mali, Estonia, Montenegro).