.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

speckx 40 points 27 comments June 29, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)

sikozu

I had no idea the .garden TLD even existed. Having just checked Porkbun, it seems like they go for $1.54 which is pretty cheap. No wonder they're being abused. If you have a cheap TLD of course bad actors will buy a bunch.

OutOfHere

It is absurd to consider a TLD bad just because it's cheap and its names were registered by some bad people. It's a bad case of stereotyping. Filters need to be better than this. There are plenty of good names within a TLD.

fabstei

A concrete counterexample: plantura.garden is a large, reputable German-language gardening magazine / brand, and probably exactly the kind of legitimate site one would expect on .garden. So while the abuse numbers may well justify treating newly registered / low-reputation .garden domains with suspicion, blanket-blocking the entire TLD seems like it would create real collateral damage.

wartywhoa23

They'd better compare the abuse statistics, in wide all-things-considered¹ sense, of .garden to that of .ai. ¹As in abuse of planet's resources, economy, job market and on human sanity and patience.

mandrade2

damn I got git.garden

qasderghytfgyt

considerations@52%5%8%*%@٤&٠!٧٠؟

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