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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Cos its considered cool and people follow the herd.
For techbros a while ago an .io domain was a thing because its sounds like i/o and projects an image you are tech literate.
A ton of new tlds became available a few years ago. A lot of newer sites use them, not just Lemmy servers. Older sites that have already been established for a while will obviously be using the standard endings, so if you compare lemmy sites vs well-known sites that have been around for a while, then that’s the reason.
Starting in 2012 ICANN started introducing a bunch of new ones partly so there’s more addresses and also so that the names can better express the purpose of the site.
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