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.INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications

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563 points joncfoo | 2 comments | 09 Aug 24 16:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | source
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huijzer ◴[09 Aug 24 20:42 UTC] No.41205251[source]▶
1. Buy .intern TLD

2. Sell to scammers.

3. Profit.

(I want to appreciate how hard it probably is for ICANN to figure out proper TLDs.)

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gjsman-1000 ◴[09 Aug 24 20:55 UTC] No.41205344[source]▶
Um... no? .intern is not a valid TLD; you can't get any domains with it, nobody has proposed that TLD, and if someone did that issue would be discovered then.
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jeroenhd ◴[09 Aug 24 21:03 UTC] No.41205385[source]▶
If you've got a couple hundred grant laying about, you could probably set up a shell company and acquire .intern through a several-year ccTLD acquisition process.

I'd like to think people learned from .dev and such. I doubt any scammer will be able to use it.

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1. deathanatos ◴[09 Aug 24 21:51 UTC] No.41205650[source]▶
I think you're referring to the new gTLD process, which yes, costs a small boatload. Those aren't, and .intern isn't, a ccTLD, nor do I believe there is a means of acquiring a ccTLD (…outside of somehow becoming a country, I guess).
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2. jeroenhd ◴[09 Aug 24 23:56 UTC] No.41206380[source]▶
You're right, I meant gTLD. Unfortunately I can't edit my comment anymore.

I think ccTLDs are restricted to two letter codes even if the country of Internia were to be be founded. The only exceptions I can think of are the localized names (.台湾 and 中国 for countries like Taiwan and China) which are technically encoded as .xn--kprw13d and .xn--fiqs8s. Pakistan's پاکستان. is the first ccTLD I've seen that's more than two visual characters when rendered (with the added bonus of being right-to-left to make URL rendering a tad more complex) so for Internia to claim .intern as a ccTLD, they'd probably need a special script.