@lukadjo@evil.wafrn.net.js should be a top level domain
not only would the owner get rich off all the libraries clamoring to use it, but it would also create needless confusion and possibly cause some problems, who knows
.zip was great, but I say we need more
Via Porkbun's website, small price increases for certain (niche) TLDs coming April 1 (and no, it doesn't appear to be an April Fool's joke 
) https://porkbun.com/blog/domain-name-prices-increase-april-2025
Why, you ask?
Is it because we've filled up all existing #TLDs and ran out of space?
Or is it because consumers, widely recognized for understanding so well the intricacies of the internet, are clearly asking for more TLDs?
Or could it be because ICANN will charge applicants $227,000, and if they get even half the number of applications they did in 2012 (1,930) that adds up to a cool $220M?
@spamvictim and @briankrebs : it's big tech that makes money out of this - by facilitating cybercrime.
Last week https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fraud-network-uses-4-700-fake-shopping-sites-to-steal-credit-cards/ referred to https://blog.eclecticiq.com/inside-intelligence-center-financially-motivated-chinese-threat-actor-silkspecter-targeting-black-friday-shoppers.
After a bit of research I found that Cloudflare proxies more than 1,000 fake webshops at one IPv4 address alone, all created over the last few days (source: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/104.18.73.116/relations and https://crt.sh). In this case it's Cloudflare and Shopify who make money to begin with.
Just to name a few, abusing brands and logos:
hxxps://playmobil-sale[.]shop
hxxps://zarahome-eu[.]com
hxxps://amazstore-us[.]online
hxxps://www.asicsshoes-eu[.]top
hxxps://shopping-matel[.]com
hxxps://snowboots-ugg[.]com
hxxps://ugg-usaoutlets[.]com
hxxps://zalandostorevip[.]shop
hxxps://www.oralb-eushop[.]top
hxxps://gaborshoes-eu[.]shop
hxxps://costairlines[.]com ($500 gift cards for $199)
hxxps://wayfairblackfriday[.]com
(EclecticIQ mentioned
wayfareblackfriday[.]com in their list of IOC's)
etc.
Note that there were also approx. 6 fake Lego sites, apparently they *were* taken down by Cloudflare.
The actual websites may be hosted at Google (e.g. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/35.244.245.121/relations, example: hxxps://wayshunz[.]shop - also a Waifair imitation) or Amazon. If the real sites are taken down, the crims just let Cloudflare point to another server.
Adding more TLDs indeed means that it's harder for internet users to distinguish between fake and authentic websites.
A domain name is hardly meaningful nowadays. Initially its purpose was to replace hard to remember IP-addresses, but by now many of them have become as hard to remember as strong passwords. Worse, phishing works because even if people look at domain names, more TLD's means that there are more ways to create lookalikes.
This is exactly what leads big tech to make more money. I would be surprised if it's not THEM pushing ICANN to add more TLD's.
"Once [the country code] IO is removed, the [Internet Assigned Numbers Authority] will refuse to allow any new registrations with a .io domain. It will also automatically begin the process of retiring existing ones. (There is no official count of the number of extant .io domains.)"
https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain
via https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/113272637623967392
EDIT: See a note from @proactiveservices: https://fosstodon.org/@proactiveservices/113273992151197926
I really like @xor's Python script for generating domain names from public domain books, so I turned it, with permission, into a website, to make it easier to use.
Hope you'll enjoy!
Anyone else think the 
#Fediverse taught you a lot of #TLDs you didn't know existed? For instance (pardon the pun), I never knew .bbc, .sucks and .international were TLDs until I came across them in my timeline as Fediverse instances.
I love how people are setting up sites and Fediverse instances with new and emerging TLDs to stand out from the usual .com, .org, .net and others. More sites should have them, especially domain hacks! 
A comprehensive list of Internet #TLDs which are also valid #HTML elements:
<audio> / .audio
<br> / .br - Brazil
<data> / .data
<hr> / .hr - Croatia
<li> / .li - Liechtenstein
<link> / .link
<map> / .map
☰ <menu> / .menu
<search> / .search
<select> / .select
<style> / .style
<td> / .td - Chad
<th> / .th - Thailand
<tr> / .tr - Türkiye
<video> / .video
There are a couple of deprecated HTML elements as well:
<center> / . center
<tt> / .tt - Trinidad and Tobago
