.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

functionmouse

.me is cooler, but... That all the cool 2-letter TLDs are designated as country codes was an extraordinary mistake that will have unpredictable and devastating consequences long into the future.

LorenDB

Looks like we've hugged it to death.

comrade1234

Good luck getting your outgoing emails accepted by Gmail and outlook.

axus

I've started using .internal

9dev

Shotgun on your.self! That’s going to yield a ton of great second level sub domains :)

quotemstr

ICANN and its consequences have been a disaster for the internet namespace.

sikozu

Wanted to find out more but it looks to be down. Unfortunate.

mkl

Site errored out and gave me three different error messages as I reloaded. I guess it's self-hosted on something underpowered, and dynamic where static would do the job?

hosel

gofuckyour.self

bananamogul

Hold up...why isn't .self listed here: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db Is this just an idea at this point, or some kind of "you have to use our DNS to resolve .self domains" scheme - ?

iamnothere

Better charge an arm and a leg for it, or people will complain that it’s too cheap and argue for blocking it everywhere.

cherryteastain

In practice sadly many of these more obscure TLDs seem to be more expensive than more 'normal' ones like .org

goldenarm

Remember when the .tk TLD became free 20 years ago ? Every hobbyist took one, then scammers followed, then Facebook and antiviruses started blocking it. I remember publishing a website for a class on my .tk domain, the teacher couldn't open it and I almost got a failing grade because of it.

foresto

What is the expected price range for registration and renewal under this TLD? Will there be any assurance that renewal prices will remain fairly stable, rather than being significantly raised after customers grow attached to their domains (a practice that seems to be common with new gTLDs)?

gpt5

Feels like putting a flag on yourself that you are an easier target (security vulnerabilities, ddos, etc.)

robertlagrant

Will Self[0] is going to love this. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Self

arjie

Just use cloudflare with static hosting for things like this. Doesn’t load for me.

TZubiri

>One domain per person How will you ensure this?

stanfordkid

I don't fully understand how this works... who regulates and defines what is "self-hosted" or "ethical technology"... I feel you can't really solve the distributed consensus and governance problem by just introducing a new domain suffix.