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Ask HN: What are you using the new TLD's for?

9 points by kafei ↗ HN
So the new domains have been out for a few months now. What are you using them for? I have seen a few cool ideas, like http://vart.institute and http://registered.today - this is what I'm looking for. Also general sentiment around expanding the internet namespace.

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0x420
I'm easily amused by domain hacks, as I suspect most people are. I currently own http://jules.codes and I'm not doing anything interesting with it.
kafei
> This site is powered by AngularJS and jQuery running on the Express framework for node.js and deployed on Heroku, generated using generator-fullstack for the Yeoman workflow automator.

Why not just put a few HTML files on a server and achieve the same thing? I don't even notice any JavaScript on your site.

_RPM
Not noticing the use of JavaScript is actually the beauty of it.
0x420
It certainly could use a bit more flair, I think. I chose to avoid that because the goal was to just have something tangible ready by the end of a weekend. I threw the site together while I was looking to switch jobs, so that I could at least say I have minimal experience with frontend MVC. I did end up getting hired elsewhere, so it fulfilled its purpose. Funny enough, we don't use frontend MVC frameworks at all here, but it was a cool learning experience nonetheless.
0x420
If I had just put some HTML files on a shared host I wouldn't have been able to learn Angular and Heroku fundamentals while building it ;)
jenmcewen
Mostly for fun. I've got a .ninja and .beer.

Contemplated .xxx's for my company to protect the brand against cybersquatters.

emcarey
fun trick. buy your friends name in a new gTLD like frankjones.hiphop /build fun website on said domain/buy google adwords for friends name and direct to site. tell friend to google their name.

great for birthday pranks.

jevin
My cousin has an accommodation business called Orchid Villas. So we got the domain http://orchid.villas which is pretty cool I think.

I would still advise getting the "traditional" (.com, .net, etc) counterpart too.

Andrenid
Family has farms... <family name>.farm has worked well for us so far. The TLD becomes a talking point that makes people remember it... "Oh, no .com at the end?" etc.