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I'm surprised that nobody has tried to setup up any crypto-currency domain name extensions. There must be an opening there as the market expands.

Well, you need about $500,000 to setup a new domain extension.

And they have to be approved by ICANN and I don't think you can just create one when you want.

Plus you will need to have some department to handle it.

I don't think at the moment a .coin or .bitcoin extension would generate great revenue for the owner...

However, I'd love to have a .bitcoin or .coin extension to register some domains :)

What a crazy system that some central body is putting a high price like that just on words.  You might aswell just buy a decent .com for that money and i guess thats the idea.  What a scam.

Someone can apply for .coin as it is a generic term, .bitcoin might not be possible due to trademark issues, one cannot simply claim open source project names as their own.

There is actually a .bit domain created by crypto fans. However, in order to visit a .bit domain site, one must have some kind of software installed on their computer. Anyway, this have already been discussed many times by many people before. I do hope to see a .bitcoin or .crypto (.coin sound too boring) domain soon. Even though the market might be small, it can help at least help spread Bitcoin to others.

I think its pretty nice to have it, as an example for bitcoin shops or bitcoin casinos.

.bit exists via namecoin but most ISP DNS servers do not support it as it is not ICANN sanctioned.

No, you just need to set up your DNS to a DNS server that is set up to run it.

I did it that way for awhile, just pointing my home router to a DNS server that supported .bit

However the DNS server kept getting taken down with DoS attacks because the admins didn't really know what they were doing, their DNS server was constantly being used as part of a DoS attack. So I said f*ck it, namecoin is a failed experiment (the concept is beautiful but meaningful adoption never achieved) and stopped using it, every .bit domain I visited regularly had an ICANN equivalent domain.

I don't find it attractive to have domain names ending with .coin or .bitcoin. Maybe it is just my own thoughts... email address ending with .bitcoin might be interesting.

There's something about obscure extensions that turns me off. I don't know why. Maybe I'm just an old stick in the mud. Bonkers that you have to lay out so much money and wait for someone's approval for a new one but I guess there must be a glimmer of a reason for that.

I don't feel like this is scam. It is system designed to keep everyone from trashing the network with stupid extensions. Domain extensions should be luxury goods.
Here is interesting read about how Domain market works and what will happen when we will run out of domain names: https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when-we-run-out-of-domains (https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when-we-run-out-of-domains)

Well its really strange. I mean we never throught of have .dollar or .euro at domain Ext. So bitcoin is also a currency.

So why having a Domain with a currency name.

We should treat Bitcoin same as we treat other Currencies.  :)

some of them are snkeaky and use .co.in instead of .coin :)

Maybe I'll take the easy option and start a coin called "com".

Wow, Ok I have learn something new today... I had no idea it was that expensive. I guess the revenue from registering sub-domains will make up for

the money spend on registering the new name extension, if you come in early. The choice of that extension will determine if you going to be filthy

rich or dirt poor. I can already see a bunch of faucets and Alt coin guys licking their lips for those extensions.   ::)

A sub-domain is a 3rd level domain, and is created on your server. Some people create a sub-domain structure, and try to pass it off as a "proper" domain name. gb.com is one example - xxxx.gb.com is a 3rd level name.

The hierarchy is

TLD - top level name - that is the .com part of the name
2nd level name - and example is bitcointalk.org
3rd level name or sub-domain is similar to a directory, but has some search engine advantages. eg. forum.bitcointalk.org

It's become a bit more complex now, because they have added country names, and generic names.

I also like to have those .coin or .bitcoin domain but setting up new extension is not like decentralized, peer to peer process. This also shows how slow are decentralized work and also quite expensive.

We already have .co.in though :)

Careful with country code TLDs. They allow a government to seize your domain for any reason they choose, and often there are rules on country code TLDs that are more restrictive than gTLDs.

In India for example was to ban bitcoin, you could see anything on .co.in taken down - even if it wasn't servicing India.

With gTLDs the USA can easily seize it, remember The Pirate Bay and Megaupload?

It would be great to have such crypto related extension but i am stunned by cost of it. It is just one more proof that we need more (or better absolutely) decentralized internet and i just hope one day we will get there.

and also if a country decides to ban bitcoin they would easily ban all the .coin and .bitcoin domains. although banning them is not a big deal but it is going to become a pain in the ass for people in those countries.

You can't easily ban a TLD. You would have to filter all traffic to the root nameservers.

Check out sidera.io  ???
They will reserve part of the crowdfunding to the filling of the application for these three new Generic Domain Extensions.

.bitcoin
.btc
.blockchain

owh i just know about create new domain, so i can makes my own domain if i have $500.000? like my username .kucritt or anything else? its awesome, i hope i have $500.000 to makes my own domain hahaha