As a temporary placeholder, I suggest either putting a big <h1>Yes</h1>, or maybe have it be <h1>No</h1> dependent on an RNG. In the same vein as http://arethebritsatitagain.com/
I think you should transfer the domain to a gay rights org or similar because this type of domain squatting is obnoxious. I mean, you didn't even have a plan for the domain, just registered it for the novelty.
You don't have a voice that's why you're asking here. So someone gave you a good suggestion and you shit on it. You should let it expire or give it to a group who actually wants to do something with it.
This comment is the type of censorship-by-emotion thoughtlessness that makes people not want to support an advocacy group. There are a million other domain name options gay rights orgs can choose from. Use some creativity and come up with your own.
According to WHOIS, google.gay was registered on February 11th. (Rights-holders are allowed to get in early through the sunrise process to prevent exactly the kind of squatting you're hypothesizing, though not typically this early.)
Sometimes people will say "I'm having a gay ol' time" to mean "I'm having a good time" with a bit of a subversive tint to it, since they know that everyone knows that gay to mean happy is completely outdated. The vast majority of the time it means homosexual, even for women.
I was going to say “and a name which is neither”, but I didn’t realise the atomic bomb dropping superfortress Enola Gay was named for the pilot’s mother.
.gay sounds like a great way to champion gay rights for a given place or brand. I hope it will become a typical pattern and actually do some good in the world.
I actually think there's a clear explanation for this: HN is much larger than it seems. There are millions of users. Every subgroup/tendency is going to be represented in a population sample that big, except for utterly obscure ones.
Which subgroups/tendencies show up in the comments is therefore more a question of the particular thread: the title, the topic, and the early comments. If it seems like "HN would be better than $X", that's only because we mostly manage to avoid the stimuli that produce $X responses.
Thinking that HN would be better than <insert any bad behavior here> is a bit too hopeful of an assumption. Everyone is prone to bad / ignorant behavior. HN users being no exception.
I disagree. Some communities are actually much better than others on a variety of issues. I mistakenly thought that this was an issue HN would have been better and more mature on too, but I'm learning I was wrong about that.
But compare your average 8chan poster to your average HN poster and you'll see that for sure not all online communities are the same.
I for sure never thought that all HN posters were free of hate/discrimination, I just thought they were better than we're seeing here. But I was proven wrong in that.
>The use of .gay for anti-LGBTQ content or to malign or harm LGBTQ individuals or groups is strictly prohibited and can result in immediate server-hold. Prohibited behavior includes harassment, threats, and hate speech. For the complete policy, see: https://toplevel.design/policy
Firstly, the company overseeing the tld gets to make its own rules. For example, you'd have to go through Verisign at some point if you wanted a .com domain.
Second, the only things encapsulated by the term LGBTQ are sexual orientation and gender identity, two innately connected concepts. People can add as many letters to the acronym as they want but it doesn't change anything about the movement or the group as a whole.
The point of the "more letters" is probably not what you think, but rather what if the entity in charge decides to add a new one (say, X) but it turns out the L, the B and the T now feel alienated by the X? Or, conversely, what if they decide not to include some new group (say, P)? It just seems rather nebulous and down to the whims of some mysterious entity with unclear motives.
There is no "entity in charge" of the LGBT acronym, no central authority approving, adding or removing letters, or any particular concern over "alienation" from adding or removing letters. It's a cultural idiom, not an ISO standard.
Regarding its "nebulous" nature and "motives," quoting from Wikipedia[0]:
The initialism, as well as some of its common variants, have been adopted
into the mainstream as an umbrella term for use when labeling topics
pertaining to sexuality and gender identity.
The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and
gender identity-based cultures.
Note that, while the quote mentions "LGBT" specifically that description also applies to the "common variants" also described, including LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, and others mentioned elsewhere in the article. I only point that out because one of your flagged comments mentions how alienated and confused you are by "the whole gay thing," so I wanted to be as clear as possible.
And if you're instead talking about the registrar, they're not a mysterious entity, and their motives are clearly spelled out on their policy page[1].
These days this is gauged by the level of social media outrage, this is what brings 'problems' to the attention of decision-makers, and I suspect that this rule will mostly be used as a response to that unless the domain name itself is obviously disparaging.
Enforcement of this will be ... interesting. Is labeling someone gay considered hate speech? Would buying 'famous person'.gay and having it display the word 'yes' be considered defamation?
They will file a trademark claim against you under ICANN UDRP[1]. These are arbitrated so they’re cheap to file and are very quick to resolve (compared to courts).
Many in the LGBT community feel that the acronym does not accurately capture their identity. LGBTQIA+ is the currently acceptable acronym to use, so you can see how the use of .lgbt would be "harmful". Also, you can't have a + symbol in a TLD, which would also be considered "harmful" should it ever be up for implementation.
All in all, the use of gTLD names to reinforce identity is stupid. .com and .org mean company and organization. It's the words before those letters that define the type of company or organization you are, that's where your identity is supposed to lie.
Because it's generally recognized that calling something gay is funny and a way to insult it, at least here in America. Is that not the case in other places? I've heard at least some of it in south and central america, though it tends to be taken more personally there than in
This opens the flood gates for TLDs for every community under the sun (as long as it is PC, of course). There is gold at the end of the rainbow... But really this trend of multiplying TLDs ad infinitum has been going on for years because it's free money.
I don't know what to put on it, but I would like to host a FAQ or something for people who are questioning their sexuality and make it v wholesome.