Yesterday we told you that more than a thousand new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) would be coming to join .com, .gov, .org, and the few other gTLDs we already use. We went through the list of coming additions and picked out some of our favorites.
.shaw
You can buy this print from PJ McQuade
This one was probably submitted for something other than a Robert Shaw fansite at robert.shaw, but that’s why we’re excited for it.
.wang
Image via That Mitchell and Webb Look
That’s number.wang!
.venture
Image via The Venture Bros.
Quick! Someone register hank.venture, dean.venture, and rusty.venture.
.online
Image via Julian Bleecker
This one just strikes us as funny because it’s sort of all encompassing. Everything on the Internet is online, so why do we need .online to tell us something is .online?
.coach
Image via Wikipedia
Finally, the Craig T. Nelson fan community has a gTLD they can rally around.
.plumbing
Image via Beige Alert
Because the Internet is a series of tubes!
.tube
Image via Dann Stayskal
Because the Internet is a series of plumbings?
.construction
Image via Frédéric Bisson
We like this because it’s registered by Fox Dynamite LLC and we want to believe they tried to get .dynamite but couldn’t.
.genting
Image via Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer
Google defined “genting” as “narrow pass through mountains; also peretak or pertak,” but it sounds like the act of doing something like a gentleman, and we like that.
.pizza
Image via Kevin Reese
BECAUSE OF COURSE!
.beer
Image via Toby Keller/Burnblue
BECAUSE EVEN MORE OF COURSE!
.george
Image via Giphy and Seinfeld
This was registered by Wal-Mart. Why? No idea, but this is great news for anyone named George. We imagine it’s going to be a race to grab costanza.george first.
.sucks
Image via Steven Depolo
Generally we like to promote positivity here on Geekosystem, but we like how easy it will be to register [anything].sucks in the future. This might be the best new one.
.blockbuster
Image via Thomas Hawk
Maybe this is so people can set up memorial sites for their local Blockbuster Video?
.computer
Image via TehBoris
This one sounds like the kind of top level domain we would make up if we were pretending to not know anything about the Internet. “Oohh, I’m on the Internet! I will go to double-you double-you double-you dot Internet dot computer!”
.website
Image via medithIT
Nevermind. .website is our new go-to pretend top level domain in the above example.
.meme
We sure do love us some memes.
.luxury
Image via Parks and Recreation
Treat yo self!
.ninja
Image via Daniel Y. Go
The stealthiest of all top level domains.
.istanbul
Image via Tiny Toons
.istanbul was once .constantinople. Alright. We’re not actually that excited about this, we just wanted to make that joke.
The approved new gTLDs will begin rolling out in January, and some hosting sites are already taking pre-registrations.
(via ICANN)
- Learn more about the new gTLDs in our story from yesterday
- Google banished Rap Genius from its search results
- Microsoft bought the Xbone.com domain
Published: Dec 31, 2013 03:36 pm