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Somehow, unrelated.. With the rise of such cool OS projects like Puter[1], DaedalOS [2] et al. [3], with Krazam being one of them, I can't help but dream of the day when the .os TLD for operating systems is introduced. I believe it would make more sense to use/read krazam.os rather than krazam.tv.

About a year ago, new TLDs were introduced [4], with .zip and .mov being the most popular. However, the .os TLD wasn't on the list, which was disappointing for me!

I'm uncertain about the criteria that determine whether a TLD is a good candidate, and I may be the only one emotionally attached to the idea of a .os TLD. Nevertheless, the introduction of the .zip TLD faced numerous complaints[5],[6], particularly regarding security concerns.

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1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838179

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830132 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779753

3. https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops

4. https://fieldeffect.com/blog/what-you-should-know-about-the-...

5. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-zip-domai...

6. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/05/zip-domains




Afaik all 2-letter TLDs are ccTLDs, which means they must be a country code of some country and are managed by it. There's no country with "os" yet, so to make the TLD available one would need to found a new country first!


Let's call it the Oasis of Servers. I guess we could find an old oil platform or something...


I've been of the opinion for a while now that they should just go ahead and make all 26^2 two letter tlds available. Would be neat.


If they did that, everyone would worry about registering all the domains with a Levenshtein distance of 1 from theirs, in case of typos.


Oh, thanks for the clarification! I didn't thought about this.


I may be wrong, but I believe all 2 letter TLDs are ccTLDs. All none ccTLDs would have to be 3 characters or longer.


Then it's .ops


How about .oess? "No, it's spelt o-ess. Yes, just like the 2 letters, O and S. What do you mean you're confused?"




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