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Sadly, thatsso.gay is akready taken. That would have been a really funny domain to have.
Why?
Because it's generally recognized that calling something gay is funny and a way to insult it, at least here in America. Is that not the case in other places? I've heard at least some of it in south and central america, though it tends to be taken more personally there than in
If your name is Gay, iam.gay would be very cool. MAybe I'll change my name by deed poll.
I want to see whether Google will register google.gay

Will they sue me for registering it?

Yes. Google can enforce its trademark and take over the domain name.
Yes. Can't wait for them to ask me.
teengoogle.com is still going strong
OTOH, you can probably get away with apple.gay, as long as you don't make your site too specific to apple computers.
Too late, already registered on February 19th.
According to WHOIS, google.gay was registered on February 11th. (Rights-holders are allowed to get in early through the sunrise process to prevent exactly the kind of squatting you're hypothesizing, though not typically this early.)

    whois -h whois.nic.gay google.gay
    [...]
    Creation Date: 2020-02-11T15:41:12.0Z
duckduck could be a nice domain
real.gay is still available for just 2200€/year!
> buy is.gay

> make a fortune from selling subdomains

If you are into (falsely) blaming people for their sexuality, that would be a great idea...
How is stating a fact "blaming"?
The commonly in informal speech used phrases "that's so gay" or "that person is gay" together with the recommendation of using it as subdomain led me to the clue that the intended use case is to "joke about" or "blame" people more than using it of a way to broadcast someones sexuality to the public
> Buy TLD aimed for a community of persecuted people

> Use it to make fun of them

Cool.

It's only 'fun' if you let it be. Nothing wrong with stating facts. Be proud!
>persecuted

Everyone is a victim, huh?

Ironically I saw it more as profiting from folks who would have such as a domain as a showing of pride, but i am fortunate enough to work in an environment where people are comfortable enough to do that sort of thing.
Yea, that's what I thought, too. I guess that's what different social circles does to perspective.
I preordered https://areyou.gay a while ago.

I don't know what to put on it, but I would like to host a FAQ or something for people who are questioning their sexuality and make it v wholesome.

As a temporary placeholder, I suggest either putting a big <h1>Yes</h1>, or maybe have it be <h1>No</h1> dependent on an RNG. In the same vein as http://arethebritsatitagain.com/
And then giggle in your basement?
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Or make a huge profit selling subdomains.

person-name.areyou.gay ?

I think you should transfer the domain to a gay rights org or similar because this type of domain squatting is obnoxious. I mean, you didn't even have a plan for the domain, just registered it for the novelty.
Seems better then someone with worse motives registering it first.
Isn't the open internet great? I can register a domain to use for my own purposes so I can also have a voice.
You don't have a voice that's why you're asking here. So someone gave you a good suggestion and you shit on it. You should let it expire or give it to a group who actually wants to do something with it.
Why can't anyone register any domain? Obnoxious is a very strong term.
This comment is the type of censorship-by-emotion thoughtlessness that makes people not want to support an advocacy group. There are a million other domain name options gay rights orgs can choose from. Use some creativity and come up with your own.
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This comment right here sums up why Trump is gonna win again.
Damn, people are quick. I did a couple of searches, and all the good ones are taken already. Probably most by squatters.

How did your even find out about it? Do squatters have a newsletter on new domain sales or something?

Just have it run this

    function areYouGay() {
      const cached = localStorage.getItem('isGay');
      const isGay = (cached ?? false) ? Number(cached) : Math.random();
      localStorage.setItem('isGay', isGay);
      return (isGay < 0.5) ? 'Yes' : 'No';
    }
i like this idea. quick splash page with a nice faq and links out to organizations that help questioning people!
I'm not a native speaker; does gay unequivocally relates to romantic preference? Or can it also simply mean "joyful"?
It can also be a given name and a surname. However, 99.9% of usage in English these days is sexual orientation related.
There's still a distinct meani g of happy. For some reason, though, people are trying to stamp it out; I hardly hear it used in new writing.
"For some reason..." ...the reason is that today "it mostly evolved into sexual orientation" like another commenter said.
Interestingly, the adverb form is still mostly used in the joyful sense. "The weather cleared, and the people danced gaily."
It's not remotely as nefarious as that, it's just that language evolves over time and conflicting meanings that cause confusion tend to be weeded out.
It meant joyful at some point but now it mostly evolved into sexual orientation
Sometimes people will say "I'm having a gay ol' time" to mean "I'm having a good time" with a bit of a subversive tint to it, since they know that everyone knows that gay to mean happy is completely outdated. The vast majority of the time it means homosexual, even for women.
It did but not any more.

There is a trope of retired Colonel writing to the Times bemoaning the of gay in its new form. <beat> in the 1960's

nvidia.gay is up for grabs at 2k euros. I wonder if they'd buy it off you.
If you try to use it in a way that affects their trademark, they will "sue" it off you.
How about .straight and .bisexual?
The community for straight people is too disparate to be meaningful. .bi is interesting though..
Yep. As a straight person I really don’t feel that I have very much in common with someone just because of the fact that they’re straight.
Two-letter codes are generally countries. In this case, Burundi.
Certainly nobody is stopping someone from applying for these gTLDs. It's just an expensive process, IIRC.
Why not, we should all be able to announce our sexual preferences through our email address.

But why stop there? Might as well make things clear with sub-domains.

Bob@white.muslim.palistinian.overfourty.bald.fat.gay

Can you imagine how many john@white.christian.american.overforty.fat.straight email addresses there'd be?
Reads like most tech twitter profiles
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Hm... By choosing the right gTLD one could fit a whole poem in an e-mail address.

Example: ah.what.a.world.of.love.was@her.feet (Keats)

That could take the whole concept of vanity domains to a whole new level!

I think we're better off without the .feet domain... I shudder to think what horrors the internet would produce with such a thing.
Before anyone gets any ideas:

>The use of .gay for anti-LGBTQ content or to malign or harm LGBTQ individuals or groups is strictly prohibited and can result in immediate server-hold. Prohibited behavior includes harassment, threats, and hate speech. For the complete policy, see: https://toplevel.design/policy

I did not expect that people here would have needed that reminder to not come up with "funny" ideas
I did. And one needs only look at the sibling comment to yours to see early warning signs.
No kidding. The quality of the discussion on this thread is disappointingly low.
The quality of discussion on HN is generally quite low these days. But it's even worse on topics that touch on issues of social justice or relate to persecuted minority groups. Too many commenters here appear to be sorely lacking in empathy.
Would you say BLM bandits and looters are lacking in empathy when they are destroying small business? Or is that fine because some 160 years ago some black dude in Africa sold his countrymen into slavery?
Because we good Americans never destroy property to “bring democracy” to other countries....
Dont move the goal posts. We have BLM protesting police brutality using... brutality? Kinda hypocritical no?
How is that moving the goal post? How much changed when people were kneeling peacefully?

People love “peaceful” protest because it can be ignored.

> Would you say BLM bandits and looters are lacking in empathy when they are destroying small business?

You mean, the boogaloo bandits and looters? Because as much as people keep talking about BLM, the ones I see charged with actual personal and property violence in and around the protests are associated with the boogaloo movement and other right-wing (white-wing?) groups.

> Or is that fine because some 160 years ago some black dude in Africa sold his countrymen into slavery?

There's nothing stupider I've heard in quite a long time — and with Trump in office and his statements getting constant visibility because of that it's saying a lot — than trying to pretend white people had nothing to do with the institutionalization of slavery and racist policy more generally in America, and that it was all a product of some “black dude in Africa”.

HN is intended for technology news and discussions. Allowing social justice, and identity politics to take over has diluted its usefulness. Empathy has nothing to do with it, it's more like commenters appear frustrated over the constant non-technology issues.
Who makes these rules? Who decides what is "anti-LGBTQ"? Will they keep adding on more letters to LGBTQ as they become available?
These days this is gauged by the level of social media outrage, this is what brings 'problems' to the attention of decision-makers, and I suspect that this rule will mostly be used as a response to that unless the domain name itself is obviously disparaging.
Firstly, the company overseeing the tld gets to make its own rules. For example, you'd have to go through Verisign at some point if you wanted a .com domain. Second, the only things encapsulated by the term LGBTQ are sexual orientation and gender identity, two innately connected concepts. People can add as many letters to the acronym as they want but it doesn't change anything about the movement or the group as a whole.
One of these questions is not like the others
The point of the "more letters" is probably not what you think, but rather what if the entity in charge decides to add a new one (say, X) but it turns out the L, the B and the T now feel alienated by the X? Or, conversely, what if they decide not to include some new group (say, P)? It just seems rather nebulous and down to the whims of some mysterious entity with unclear motives.
What are you even on about?

There is no "entity in charge" of the LGBT acronym, no central authority approving, adding or removing letters, or any particular concern over "alienation" from adding or removing letters. It's a cultural idiom, not an ISO standard.

Regarding its "nebulous" nature and "motives," quoting from Wikipedia[0]:

    The initialism, as well as some of its common variants, have been adopted 
    into the mainstream as an umbrella term for use when labeling topics 
    pertaining to sexuality and gender identity.

    The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and 
    gender identity-based cultures.
Note that, while the quote mentions "LGBT" specifically that description also applies to the "common variants" also described, including LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, and others mentioned elsewhere in the article. I only point that out because one of your flagged comments mentions how alienated and confused you are by "the whole gay thing," so I wanted to be as clear as possible.

And if you're instead talking about the registrar, they're not a mysterious entity, and their motives are clearly spelled out on their policy page[1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT

[1]https://toplevel.design/policy

Erm... I'm talking about the entity in charge of the TLD.
I still don't understand what exactly your concern is. The TLD doesn't even contain any elements of the LGBT acronym, yet you seem deeply concerned about them altering it willy nilly and this having some widespread negative effect on the gay community.

This despite going through the unnecessary effort of making an entire, completely off topic top level comment announcing how confused and alienated you were by the gay community and how you wish they would just stop being so visible so you didn't have to think about gay sex all the time.

I mean, I'm sure the gay community appreciates your concern and apologizes for the inconvenience, but it seems like you're trying very hard to start a tempest in teacup without even any tea to stir. Don't worry, the gays will be fine.

Now relax and enjoy some Scissor Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHv0jW4p_xA

Sorry for diverting the topic of your comment, but I wish this comment to be visible... (Before thinking that I am an anti-homosexual, read my entire comment, as well as before give me a downvote, write the part where I was wrong and try to refute it with a well-founded argument)

I am not against homosexuality as long as homosexuals are the minority and do not cause harm, but the normalization of homosexuality is something that simply is not going to happen unless most of the planet turns homosexual (and puts our very survival at risk).

I am in favor of respect for homosexual people as well as respect for any other person...

I am in favor that psychological damage should be imputed (insulting someone on the street saying "gay!" Does not count as psychological damage, because otherwise, someone yelling at me "small penis!" on the street would also fall into the category of "psychological damage")...

I am against the arguments (used by most of the LGBT community) to claim that homosexuality is something "normal", are not supported by scientific studies. (the largest study conducted (that I am aware of) on 500,000 homosexual people, reveals that, although their genetics are similar, there is no relationship between "homosexual genetics" and homosexual behavior: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/eaat7693)

Some of the LGBT community goals that I was able to research are:

1. Normalize homosexuality (to avoid the "psychological damage" mentioned above)

2. Legally defend homosexuals who receive psychological or physical harm (I already mentioned my position above)

3. Allow gay marriage (falls into the same category of "normalizing homosexuality" from point 1)

I do not know more objectives, if someone can tell me (or affirm if those are all the points) I would appreciate it.

.gay sounds like a great way to champion gay rights for a given place or brand. I hope it will become a typical pattern and actually do some good in the world.
In reality, and like most things these days, this will only promote more division and more identity politics.
No surprise to see that so many of the comments here are gay jokes.

The juvenile bigotry of HN strikes yet again. So much for substantive commentary.

This opens the flood gates for TLDs for every community under the sun (as long as it is PC, of course). There is gold at the end of the rainbow... But really this trend of multiplying TLDs ad infinitum has been going on for years because it's free money.
hxxp://ni.men.gay/wo?na-gar
Wow there's a lot of childish homophobia coming out in the comments here. I (naively?) thought that HN would be better than that for some reason?
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Thinking that HN would be better than <insert any bad behavior here> is a bit too hopeful of an assumption. Everyone is prone to bad / ignorant behavior. HN users being no exception.
I disagree. Some communities are actually much better than others on a variety of issues. I mistakenly thought that this was an issue HN would have been better and more mature on too, but I'm learning I was wrong about that.

But compare your average 8chan poster to your average HN poster and you'll see that for sure not all online communities are the same.

I don't even know how to argue on this. The average HN poster is definitely better than the average 8chan poster.

But that does not mean all HN posters are free of being hateful/discriminating against certain groups of people. Be it by accident or willfully.

I for sure never thought that all HN posters were free of hate/discrimination, I just thought they were better than we're seeing here. But I was proven wrong in that.
Except that being critical of homosexuality does not mean that someone is "homophobic" any more than someone critical of capitalism is "capitalism-phobic" or socialism as "socio-phobic" or whatever.
Just for dummy me, can you make a statement that is "critical of homosexuality" but not homophobic?
For example, that homosexual men have much higher incidents of HIV because of their practices.
And what are the practices you are speaking of?
Homosexual sex obviously.
What about monogamous gay men then? There are plenty of them. You should be more supportive of them than a straight single person who has more than one sexual partner. But you aren't, for some reason. You're specifically railing against gay people rather than unsafe promiscuity. Interesting ...
That's a weird argument telling me who I should and shouldn't support. Not sure what you're getting to.
Answer the question.
Sounds like bully tactics.
So you are critical of homosexual men having sex? Is that correct?
Please don't do this here.
I actually think there's a clear explanation for this: HN is much larger than it seems. There are millions of users. Every subgroup/tendency is going to be represented in a population sample that big, except for utterly obscure ones.

Which subgroups/tendencies show up in the comments is therefore more a question of the particular thread: the title, the topic, and the early comments. If it seems like "HN would be better than $X", that's only because we mostly manage to avoid the stimuli that produce $X responses.

Just checked and yes, enola.gay is registered. That was inevitable, I suppose, if a bit regrettable. (Edited for clarity.)
Why is it .gay and not .lgbt? Seems like the latter would be more inclusive.
The company that runs it also does other domains like .art, .blog, .design, .group, .ink, .llc, .photography, .style and .wiki.

I'd say they just picked the most generic thing that they thought would make the most money.

.lgbt already exists (afilias)
Many in the LGBT community feel that the acronym does not accurately capture their identity. LGBTQIA+ is the currently acceptable acronym to use, so you can see how the use of .lgbt would be "harmful". Also, you can't have a + symbol in a TLD, which would also be considered "harmful" should it ever be up for implementation.

All in all, the use of gTLD names to reinforce identity is stupid. .com and .org mean company and organization. It's the words before those letters that define the type of company or organization you are, that's where your identity is supposed to lie.

So if I buy apple.is.gay, can I expect to be immediately sued by Apple for libel and/or have the domain seized on grounds of trademark infringement?
How about you cut your own hands off so we don't have to read these stupid "dur hur hur Apple is GAY" comments in future?
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I feel really out of touch and alienated when it comes to this whole gay thing. I used to think I was progressive because I never have and never will care what people do to their own bodies, including whatever kind of sex they want to have, as long as nobody is being harmed involuntarily.

But now it seems that's not what is expected. Instead, you are expected to know and care about what sex people like to have. I just don't get it. Keep it to yourself. Why is it not OK to just not care about other people's private lives any more?

Most downvotes here are just pathetic.

It is amazing how people claim to have some insight other people just don't get, while they fight dirty and want to shut up other people.