top level domains are fun

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…