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With so many top level domains now available, the old rule of try and get them all (when there was only a handful) to protect your branding etc. goes out of the window if you are an average joe without a pocketful of corporate cash.
I own a .com, .net and .co.uk relating to an idea I had a while back (just checked, it was 13 years ago I registered them!), I have just started to have a play with the idea and with all the TLD's I am wondering is it worth registering any others, after all I have the .com which is the main one to hold. The one I am considering is .online, as it has a nice flow with the domain name itself and says exactly what the concept is. I probably will get it, after all it is only 24.99GBP/year(+vat)
With all the new Tlds, what's your thoughts? I feel having so many of them, just makes everything a mess...
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IMO, unless you are a multinational corporation, protecting yourself on all TLDs is a waste of money. A corporation might want to protect their brand name for legal reasons (though how many people would really associate www.apple.xxx with the technology corporation?), but if www.DaveAuld.co.il were to be registered, I doubt that people would associate it with you.
If I were in your place, I would do exactly as you have done - register the more common generic TLDs and the country TLD(s) in which I expect to be operating. Nothing else.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I agree, the most common ones, .com, .net, .co.uk (or your own country's TLD) and possibly .org are all that really matter.
What annoys me is that I have the .net of a domain I was setting up for basically a hobby site but the .com was grabbed by someone who held it for a year, never got around to using it more than for a mostly non-functional, possibly prototype, web-site and then abandoned it. When I tried to get it, some blood sucking company had taken it over and sits there wanting several thousand to sell it to me! They have sat on it for over five years now and have not reduced their price to anything reasonable or let it go - it gets renewed each year but nothing is ever on it. If no-one had ever registered it I could get it for $25 or whatever rather than the $4,500 they are asking for it right now. There is something wrong when people can just sit on a site holding it for ransom because they think someone else wants it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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There's laws relating to this: Cybersquatting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^], but if you jump down the page just a bit to "Legal Resolution" then you'll find out that you're "Sh^t out of Luck" on this point, unless, perhaps, if you're name is a registered trademark. Even in that case, if I were a juror and they got the domain before you registered your name as a trademark, I'd say you failed the test.
Now - if you were a big giant corporation and could actually afford the squatters fees you'd not have to pay them: you'd be protected.
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Of course you have to register all. That's the reason those were introduced... To make you pay...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I thought the standard practice was incorporated Wibble Corporation in Delaware and then register wibble.com. All other domain names become superfluous as your DSBA registered lawyer will sue the hide off anyone who crosses you.
Allegedly
veni bibi saltavi
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I continually get emails from some registrar in China saying they are going to register my company name in various Chinese domains if I don't act fast and buy them.
The whole point of all these new TLD's is simply to goad you into buying more useless domains. You only need one domain. If someone wants to register my name in some .tv domain or something, have at it bud. You're not going to bully me into doing anything I don't want to.
It's all a big ripoff. Just ignore them and move on.
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I have a presumed guilty until proven guilty attitude to all the new TLDs. I've never seen anything but garbage from them, so always assume they're a spammer/malware peddler/etc and refuse to visit links to them.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Hold My Bag Please
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Nah you just need to grow a bag.
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Jeremy Falcon
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That I can handle it more of the "The Mother in-Law is coming to stay for a while" that strikes fear into me
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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shared account.
I'd rather be phishing!
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BUH! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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"Are we doing anything next weekend?"*
*Specifically if this phrase occurs in the week preceeding the All Ireland GAA final.
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Answer "Bejesuzwomanyouswatchindasnapperniswatchindafootywhatmoredoyathink"
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I'm so past that.... I can even purchase feminine products without blinking an eye - six daughters and a wife will do that to you....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Two daughters and a wife are enough; trust me on that.
veni bibi saltavi
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charlieg wrote: six daughters and a wife
Mio Dio... you're definetely a minority in your own home!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Fine !
Fvcked Up
Insecure
Neurotic
Emotional
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Even more fearful and traumatic: "IS IT IN YET?"
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No lady has ever said that to me... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There's more than one conceive able reason why no lady ever said that to you (no chance, was said by a guy, &etc.), but I won't ask why.
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Which I answer with "Hold my beer please"
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