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[Tech] Most popular Top-Level Domains

Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org

Sun Feb 14 15:20:55 GMT 2021

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The Lupa crawler now displays most-popular TLD (Top-Level Domains) inthe geminispace by number of registered domains and no longer bynumber of capsules<gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi>. This isbecause popular hosting service using subdomains (likeflounder.online) tweak the statistics too much if you count capsules.

[The definition of "registered domains" is taken from Mozilla's PublicSuffix List <https://publicsuffix.org/>, which is not authoritativebut is better than nothing.]

With this, we have currently:

com: 65 domains* net: 42 domains* org: 40 domains* space: 25 domains* xyz: 20 domains* me: 13 domains* club: 11 domains* dev: 10 domains* uk: 9 domains* de: 9 domains* eu: 8 domains* ch: 7 domains* info: 5 domains* io: 5 domains* moe: 4 domains* tk: 4 domains* site: 4 domains* example: 4 domains* se: 4 domains* online: 4 domains

I suspect that many people choose a TLD for their capsule just becauseit "looks cool" or because it is the cheapest at this time. But payattention, not all TLD have the same rules and when a dispute occurs,the choice of TLD can be very important. The EFF (Electronic FrontierFoundation) made a very good report about that "Which InternetRegistries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?"<https://www.eff.org/wp/which-internet-registries-offer-best-protection-domain-owners>. Readit before choosing a name for your capsule!

You may think "OK, what's the problem if .me depends on montenegrinlaw and .com on US law, I do not host political content, p0rn or filesharing, so I risk nothing" but this is not true, any name can get youthe unwelcome attention of lawyers, for instance because they findyour name too close from their trademarks.