early july i spent a couple of hours browsing top-level domains (TLDs) in search for my own “meme” domain, as some of my friends have had theirs which i always envied. for example stortissvatnet.no by @polsevev, which basically is norwegian for BigDickLake.no lol.

reading up on the different TLDs i noticed how not all TLDs are easy to buy. one of the domains i was maybe thinking of getting was fe.tt, which is basically a way of saying “co.ol” in norwegian. here i learned that the .tt-domains (beloning to Trinidad and Tobago) actually are one of the few ones left where you can purchase a one letter domain. but there’s such a hurdle to actually buy one compared to places like domene.shop or godaddy.com that i can’t be bothered - and they’re expensive hehe..

what was also cool to learn was how the soviet union TLD .su still has a status of active. russia owns it of course, and they were actually using it from around 1990 to 1994 before the got the .ru. they are supposed to retire the TLD, but russia won’t do it lol.

reading more into the topic and seeing videos on it, i found more funny and interesting “funfacts” like the one above. for example TLDs themselves, specifically country or generic TLDs, can actually have websites attached to them. now this is mostly disallowed now on gTLDS (generic TLDs), but for ccTLDs (country code TLDs) they can still happen as their under their country’s jurisdiction. the only case i could find (without spending to much time testing all) was uzbekistan hahah you can actually visit https://uz/.

while browsing i also learnt that hebrew and arabic TLDs actually has the dot on the right-hand side (from at least my perspective as a left-to-right language speaker) as these are right-to-left languages - for example you have الوزارة.مصر (meaning the-ministry.egypt). the cool thing here is that web browsers have actual built-in rules for handling this scenario of bi-directional text, so whatever comes after http:// are arranged by the browser so it doesn’t get scrambled.

going back to the “meme” domain that i was so keen on getting for myself, well here is mine - harru.irish. i’ll just say if you know you know, and can’t care to explain in this post hehe. a friend and colleague suggested to also get skje.gg, which is basically bea.rd, and just have a gallery of all the different beards out there lol. i think i’ll let someone else do that as i can’t grow a beard so it would just be ironic to have that lol.

well, want to have some fun yourself with TLDs? check out ICANNs list of all, i mean like ALL, TLDs that exists. here’s the link: data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt

toodles!