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0 pointstobltobs6y ago0 comments

> all registras have usage restrictions.

Sure, but I never saw anything as ambiguous as:

* Be used for action generation or online content creation;

* Take the user directly into the action generation or content creation flow;

* Allow Google Registry to verify compliance at no cost.

That some AI script with a failure quote of ~2% will verify your compliance wont help also.

And the only way to get some human support in those cases is when you manage to get on page 1 of HN with your "crying for help" tweet.

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Double_a_926y ago· 5 in thread

That still seems pretty reasonable. They want ".new" to be seen and used as an interaction element, not as a random TLD. E.g. if twitter would get one, twitter.new would bring you somewhere where you could directly start typing a new tweet.

eloisant6y ago

Well, good luck when your app gets flag by their bot, broken because the .new no longer works, and you can't get a hold of Google to remove you from their blacklist.

Just read all the horror stories about apps on Google Play.

Double_a_926y ago

Well that would be a different issue... But their requirements / vision for the .new domain are not unreasonable or ill-intentioned.

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tobltobsOP6y ago

What about "car.new", where you can buy cars? Would that be enough "action generation"?

Already__Taken6y ago

tesla.new where you can order directly online, yeh probably. That's I reckon exactly the kind of distinction I think they're going for. ford.new would make me go to a dealer so I think they should be able to never get one.

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sh-run6y ago

As a user I don't think I'd ever go to .new directly. If you've got some other way to get users there from the main site, you might as well use a query string, path, subdomain or some combination of the three.

I'm not a web dev, but I've dabbled a bit over the years. So I guess I could be missing something. I'm sure the right marketing could make this work.

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