I was so heartbroken when I realized lemmy.read cant be bought. Literature.cafe is cute and all but lemmy read sounds like let me read ;(
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I prefer literature.cafe tbh. Still stupid though
I agree, it’s an adorable name as well 🥰
they own the thing at the right so you can't have even wkdnenwooxofkenjd.read? Didn't know you can own that
It's a pretty new thing. In recent years many new TLDs have been added.
See here for a full list currently supported on the open web: https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
Companies are now allowed to add TLDs to this, if they can provide a reason and the infrastructure needed to make them usable.
Amazon owning those TLDs and not allowing registration for it is not okay in my opinion. The words "book" and "read" are not exclusively used by Amazon.
Here is some insight into the process: https://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/draft-rfp-clean-12nov10-en.pdf
worth noting that the infrastructure and compliance requirements are pretty damn big, and the fee for registering a gTLD is quite steep (compared to most costs related to domains and the internet)
Oh yeah. You can own anything.
Nobody should be able to own an entire TLD IMO, except for .gov being restricted to the government.
Even that is just ridiculous when it's only the US government.
The French government owns gouv.fr and all their stuff is a subdomain of it. I still don't understand why the US government doesn't just do the same, register gov.us and leave everyone alone with their .gov
Why is it that the French government cannot register gov.fr? Here is uk: https://www.gov.uk/
Because we're French and our word for government is gouvernement.
There are laws in France that official offerings from the government, employers, etc. always have to be in French. Additional languages may be offered as secondary choices. It makes only sense to extend that to domains, I guess.
I think it would be reasonable to allow other countries .gov and or perhaps switch it to domain.country.gov
How is this not domain squatting?
It's only illegal for the poors.
Because $$$$$
What a bunch of cocks.
Wait a second, cocks provide value to society and many people like them. Don’t denigrate them by comparing them to Amazon
What a bunch of dicks.
Wait a second, Richards provide value to society and many people like them. Don’t denigrate them by comparing them to Amazon.
More like ICAN'T
Be sure, prior to buying any book or book-related thing online, to check if that 'small, independent'-looking website you're about to click on isn't a front for Amazon. In the same way record megacorps create 'fake indie' labels, Amazon creates fake indie online booksellers, or buys real ones out (for example, Abebooks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbeBooks).
I feel no guilt whatsoever using libgen, internet archive etc. if I cannot find a book from outside the Amazon monolith.
If you want a web front end for actual independent bookstores https://bookshop.org/ is excellent. You’ll likely pay a small premium over Amazon but you will directly support independent bookstores and publishers.
Also just as a PSA, GoodReads is also Amazon owned and I recommend everyone to check out alternatives like BookWyrm (Activity Pub integrated) and StoryGraph.
There is also Libro.fm!
So glad to see someone else mention them. Sometimes I feel like no one knows about it. I do mainly audiobooks because of time constraints and visual problems, and I always support Firestorm Books in Asheville, NC. Cooperatively owned local bookshop a few hours from me.
Sounds like a time to seriously start supporting OpenNIC or something similar.
No one should able to hoarde domains. That's fucked.
TLDs are a scam.
I would kill for one of their .fire domains
So why not just buy .books?
@gabe@literature.cafe what if DNS providers disagreed?
Unsure, it would be very interesting to see if they decided to though. There was major concern raised from Barnes and Noble before Amazon swiped the domains from them.
@gabe@literature.cafe does amazon have any actual legal "ownership" over these TLDs? would there be repercussions for a DNS provider not acknowledging their "ownership"?
Yes, they legally own those TLDs and there likely would be repercussions due to Amazons aggressive legal tactics whenever anyone remotely crosses them.