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by jcoder 1046 days ago
I’m confused about what “quality domains” means here. I’d honestly never heard of the `.ong` TLD, it seems intended for non-governmental organization. If you’re going to sell subdomains as “quality”, why not get a `.com`?
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Oh, interesting.

https://thenew.org/org-people/about-pir/policies/ngo-and-ong...

>The mission and purpose of the .NGO and .ONG top level domain (“TLDs”) is to serve the global Non-Governmental Organization (“NGO”) Community by supplying it with exclusive TLDs that will offer NGOs and associations of NGOs differentiated and verified online identities.

.ONG was new to me:

"The PIR simultaneously applied for the top-level domain .ong, which is a similarly recognisable initialism for "organisation non gouvernementale" in French, and equivalent terms in many other Romance languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian." [1]

So similar to e.g. NATO and OTAN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NGO_and_.ONG

And here Oblong itself is the NGO, so mysubdomain.obl.ong isn't that crazy.

"Oblong" is kind of an awkward word though. Anyone want to set up a fork at .bi.ngo?

Dang, now I'm going to be thinking of .ngo and .ong domains all day...

Oh, now you got me started aswell. There are so many good ones.

k.ong - cool word, don't know what it would be for. Maybe the home of the mascot of the K language (I don't think K has a mascot from what I know but they should have one).

whats.wr.ong - find a therapist site.

Much harder to figure out any on '.ngo' I feel...

dja.ngo - the web framework.

mo.ngo - the database.

flami.ngo, gri.ngo, li.ngo, ma.ngo, ri.ngo.

on the other side, how about str.ong?

bo.ngo, for physicists?
first .ngo I could think of: ta.ngo (probably will be registered within minutes of me posting this lol)
oh yeah, that one's good.
Kong is a pretty popular API management tool.
boi.ngo for airport wifi
As a founder of one, this seems unlikely to ever be used extensively
It's just that .ong is not associated with spam, unlike say freenom which gives people .tk and is used extensively for spam.
not associated with spam yet. Another TLD for a target audience that will never use the TLD because of it's obscurity so it will only be used by people looking for the cheapest domain to spam and scam.
You can't get a .ONG without being a registered NGO.
I didn't know that, thanks. Hopefully it's strictly enforced.