Looking at TLDs again out of boredom

vaporeon.attorney, for when you want to get all your legal advice from Vaporeon

It looks like it's still possible to register a .af TLD? So I'm not sure what the problem on that one instance was

You enter vaporeon.cafe
You see:
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To be clear, I am not even looking whether those domains are owned by someone else, just thinking of funny domain names out of boredom

vaporeon.channel 🎥

A domain that you can only use for commercial purposes...

Usage Requirements
.CHANNEL domain names are intended solely for use by creators and publishers to host or redirect to storefronts featuring digital and physical products, and audience-building mechanisms for the purpose of monetisation.

That enforcement action including termination may be taken for a domain name that is being used in a manner inconsistent with the .CHANNEL usage Requirements;

vaporeon.apartments, they're free as long as you can tolerate the Vaporeons

vaporeon.apartments, under the water and water and water water 🌊

vaporeon.city, full of vaporeon.apartments

vaporeon.cloud ☁️ ✈️

vaporeon.computer, if it is available (I didn't check), would be 42€ per year, that's a lot more than my .net domain...

vaporeon.cruises

You're on a cruise ship, standing on the deck, looking out onto the ocean

In the distance, you see rippling water, which doesn't look like a normal wave

Suddenly, Vaporeon jumps out of the water and onto the deck of the ship!

vaporeon.country, which is full of vaporeon.city, which are full of vaporeon.apartments, which are full of vaporeon.fish

vaporeon.delivery

Your shipment of Vaporeon has arrived

There is .dog, and there is .cat, but for .cat, you have to speak Catalan

vaporeon.education, where you teach how to be

There is a .email TLD??? But why?

@vaporeon_ my favorite website URL is

so Jeff Gerstmann (video games playing man/former games journalist/former co-creator of Giant Bomb) does a YouTube series where he plays every single NES game and is ranking them on a list. "By the science", he calls it. All his rankings are scientific. (this is a joke and there is no science.)

But someone else made a website for it that displays the list, and it's at 8bitnintendo.science

@vaporeon_ fwiw; one day I do want to have a website, using one of these funny tlds.

But I think the issue is deciding on the domain, rather than the TLD?

Is that the right term? I googled "parts of the URL" and they defined "domain" as the entire www.example.com

but I mean the example part of it

@The_T URLs follow a hierarchical structure, some registry owns .com, potentially some other registry owns .fish, and so on. So now if you want to buy a domain, you buy e.g. the-ti.com or vaporeon.fish from some registrar. The prices are different depending on which TLD you want, and also some countries have requirements that you, for example, have to live there in order to register the domain. I can't get e.g. vaporeon.aq because .aq has the requirement of working in Antarctica or maintaining a remote installation there, I can't get vaporeon.cat because I don't speak Catalan, .fish is more expensive than .net, and so on.

And once you own the-ti.com, you yourself can set whatever sub-domains you want for it assuming that you can set up the DNS properly, e.g. you could have streams.the-ti.com and blog.the-ti.com and whatever.the-ti.com and point them all at different servers or to different web sites on the same server if you wanted

@vaporeon_ right, I know all that.

I just think the-t.anything would be a terrible name. I'd rather it be like... something related to the stream, or like the name of my friend group as a whole, something along those lines.

Less about branding and more about flavor.

(That said, I also need a better name for my YouTube channel. "The T" has poor SEO.)

@The_T Did I misunderstand the question, then, if you know all that?

@vaporeon_ yeah. My question was, in the URL itself

www. example .com

.com is the top-level domain

www is probably something else

example is... do you just call that "the domain" or is there another name for it?

because one site seemed to think "the domain" is the whole thing, from www. to .com