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by Brendinooo 1046 days ago
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.

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.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