[ahmedfromtunis]

That's a s(p/c)ammer's dream if there's a lesson to be learned from the.tk experience.

I think this should fall on governments to create such a system for their citizens. A cheap web.de or website.au, would be very practical.

Also I think national regulators would have more legroom to control such domains as they can exclude non-residents and avoid to deal with international rings.

On a personal level, I'd suggest buying a short domain (I own a couple of ab.xy ones) and use that as a personal tld of sorts.

And with Cloudflare, you don't even need to manually configure the DNS settings or let's encrypt.

Having a website up and running in 10 seconds without having to go through the process of registering a domain is such an amazing experience!

[jerbear4328]

Currently, we're pretty limited on 5-character ab.xy domains, and they'll cost you over $1000 USD to register[1]. However, 6 and 7 character domains are available, and can indeed be really useful!

[1]: https://micro.domains

[marginalia_nu]

Worth noting TLDs have a reputation as well.

Having a cheap tld (e.g. .xyz, .pw, .icu) definitely lowers the odds of being able to send emails from your domain name, impairs search engine discovery, and has other similar effects.