This is an idea at this point, the next round of gTLD applications is currently open and we are in the process of applying and we are trying to garner support!
There are three TLDs I block on my computer completely, and all of them are file extensions - .zip, .md, and .mov.
(Yes, the domain "readme.md" exists. Fortunately, whoever owns it is not using their power for evil and does not have any webserver there... but I'm not risking it.)
I am SO tired of the Claude docs site getting a rich preview every time anyone mentions “claude.md”. At least it’s registered by Anthropic, but what a terrible decision to allow these TLDs.
To be fair, .md is the ccTLD for Moldova, first set up in 1994[0], ten years before Markdown was even a thing. The ccTLDs use the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, defined in 1974 (according to Wikipedia)[1].
Moldova has every right to the ccTLD. It's just that I find that Markdown files can sometimes get auto-linked to the corresponding (and frequently non-existent) domain, which could catch me out if I'm unaware... and I don't even know of any sites using that ccTLD, hence why I block it.
there's a project for getting retro computers connected to an "internet" with 90s/00s services available, and they use .retro on that. it's pretty cute.
So this is my iCloud on the web for AI agents to pay me for access to my content (Cloudflare allows the bots in upon paying) :-)
Cloudflare offers this now (their Pay to Crawl service) but its not geared towards every human getting paid for their content. As of today Facebook and other social media platforms profit from our content....not us!