For years, I found myself somewhat impressed by web addresses that ended, not in the customary .com or .org, but with .tv instead. Like so many people, I just naturally assumed the organization involved had a corresponding television presence as well as an internet presence. Turns out this is not quite the case!
According to an article at www.newser.com titled “Countries Are Cashing in on Their Domain Names”, posted on October 20, 2024, domain names are often driven by their country of origin. Thus...
Anguilla is raking in extra revenue from registration fees for its .ai web domain thanks to the artificial intelligence boom, but it's not the only place cashing in on demand for websites with distinctive address endings. The AP has details:
Tuvalu: Tuvalu is a string of coral atolls, scattered over hundreds of miles in the Pacific Ocean, located midway between Australia and Hawaii. It has one of the world's smallest economies and its low-lying islands are vulnerable to climate change, but it does have a very valuable resource: the .tv web domain. Royalties from .tv, which web users might assume is short for television, have been climbing, especially after videogame streaming platform Twitch licensed the web address twitch.tv.
Libya: The North African country, which has been plagued by turmoil since longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi's death in 2011, isn't readily associated with internet culture. But Libya controls web addresses that end in .ly, which have become widely used as a so-called domain hack for websites with English names that end in -ly. Well-known examples include bit.ly, used by the weblink shortening service Bitly, and parse.ly, the website for online analytics platform Parse.ly.
Montenegro: This Balkan country became an independent nation after the breakup of Yugoslavia. It's one of Europe's smaller countries—about 620,000 people—bordered by the Adriatic Sea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Albania. Montenegro was assigned the .me web domain, which has become popular with people who want to claim their pronoun for personal branding. Websites ending in .me are "often used for personal websites, portfolios, blogs and online resumes or portfolios because 'me' can be seen as a way to personalize an online presence," website builder Wix says.
Colombia: Websites that end in .co aren't from a generic web domain for companies, like .com sites. The .co domain is assigned to Colombia, but the South American country allows anyone to sign up for its web addresses. Internet registrar GoDaddy says more than 2 million .co web domains have been claimed, including addresses claimed by Big Tech names like Amazon, which uses it to redirect online shoppers to its .com home page. Google, meanwhile, informs visitors to g.co that the link is its official shortcut.
Wow! By registering in Anguilla, one can have a domain name ending in “.ai”. Similarly, a Tuvalu registration gets someone a domain ending in “.tv”; Libya gets one ending in “.ly”; Montenegro gets one ending in “.me”; and Columbia gets one ending in “.co”.
Given the human propensity to promote self, self-serving domain names ending in “.me” are ready made. And whenever a desired domain name is already taken, what better way to appear stylish and fashionable than to create a chic website ending in “.ly”, “.ai”, or “.co”? My strong suspicion is that more than a few domain names have been registered for these very reasons.
Lest I appear hypocritical here, my own domain name admittedly ends in “.com” even though I am an individual and not a corporation. However, when I registered this domain a decade and half ago, “.com” was all that was available. So, I am clearly not masquerading as some large company.
The bigger issue in all of this is that the internet is very much a reflection of human nature. From the earliest chapters of Genesis, men and women pretentiously promoted themselves, while defending their actions by blaming others. And that trend has continued pretty much unabated ever since.
Perhaps this is why the Bible has so much to say about not being haughty and self-centered. In the New Testament Gospel of Matthew (chapter23, verse 12), Jesus tells us: “But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
To this, we can add a multitude of verses such as:
Proverbs 29:23: “A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.”
Luke 14:11: “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 18:14: “I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
James 4:6: “But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: ‘God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’”
And 1 Peter 5:6: “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.”
Given these things, I think I’ll forego trendy online attempts to aggrandize myself. For in the end, it would hard.ly be right for .me to promote the agenda of the Almight.ai and myself at the same time. In fact, it might well prove to be a spiritual fias.co!
SOURCE:
https://www.newser.com/story/357881/countries-are-cashing-in-on-their-domain-names.html.
SCRIPTURE:
https://biblehub.com/matthew/23-12.htm.
According to an article at www.newser.com titled “Countries Are Cashing in on Their Domain Names”, posted on October 20, 2024, domain names are often driven by their country of origin. Thus...
Anguilla is raking in extra revenue from registration fees for its .ai web domain thanks to the artificial intelligence boom, but it's not the only place cashing in on demand for websites with distinctive address endings. The AP has details:
Tuvalu: Tuvalu is a string of coral atolls, scattered over hundreds of miles in the Pacific Ocean, located midway between Australia and Hawaii. It has one of the world's smallest economies and its low-lying islands are vulnerable to climate change, but it does have a very valuable resource: the .tv web domain. Royalties from .tv, which web users might assume is short for television, have been climbing, especially after videogame streaming platform Twitch licensed the web address twitch.tv.
Libya: The North African country, which has been plagued by turmoil since longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi's death in 2011, isn't readily associated with internet culture. But Libya controls web addresses that end in .ly, which have become widely used as a so-called domain hack for websites with English names that end in -ly. Well-known examples include bit.ly, used by the weblink shortening service Bitly, and parse.ly, the website for online analytics platform Parse.ly.
Montenegro: This Balkan country became an independent nation after the breakup of Yugoslavia. It's one of Europe's smaller countries—about 620,000 people—bordered by the Adriatic Sea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Albania. Montenegro was assigned the .me web domain, which has become popular with people who want to claim their pronoun for personal branding. Websites ending in .me are "often used for personal websites, portfolios, blogs and online resumes or portfolios because 'me' can be seen as a way to personalize an online presence," website builder Wix says.
Colombia: Websites that end in .co aren't from a generic web domain for companies, like .com sites. The .co domain is assigned to Colombia, but the South American country allows anyone to sign up for its web addresses. Internet registrar GoDaddy says more than 2 million .co web domains have been claimed, including addresses claimed by Big Tech names like Amazon, which uses it to redirect online shoppers to its .com home page. Google, meanwhile, informs visitors to g.co that the link is its official shortcut.
Wow! By registering in Anguilla, one can have a domain name ending in “.ai”. Similarly, a Tuvalu registration gets someone a domain ending in “.tv”; Libya gets one ending in “.ly”; Montenegro gets one ending in “.me”; and Columbia gets one ending in “.co”.
Given the human propensity to promote self, self-serving domain names ending in “.me” are ready made. And whenever a desired domain name is already taken, what better way to appear stylish and fashionable than to create a chic website ending in “.ly”, “.ai”, or “.co”? My strong suspicion is that more than a few domain names have been registered for these very reasons.
Lest I appear hypocritical here, my own domain name admittedly ends in “.com” even though I am an individual and not a corporation. However, when I registered this domain a decade and half ago, “.com” was all that was available. So, I am clearly not masquerading as some large company.
The bigger issue in all of this is that the internet is very much a reflection of human nature. From the earliest chapters of Genesis, men and women pretentiously promoted themselves, while defending their actions by blaming others. And that trend has continued pretty much unabated ever since.
Perhaps this is why the Bible has so much to say about not being haughty and self-centered. In the New Testament Gospel of Matthew (chapter23, verse 12), Jesus tells us: “But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
To this, we can add a multitude of verses such as:
Proverbs 29:23: “A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.”
Luke 14:11: “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 18:14: “I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
James 4:6: “But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: ‘God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’”
And 1 Peter 5:6: “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.”
Given these things, I think I’ll forego trendy online attempts to aggrandize myself. For in the end, it would hard.ly be right for .me to promote the agenda of the Almight.ai and myself at the same time. In fact, it might well prove to be a spiritual fias.co!
SOURCE:
https://www.newser.com/story/357881/countries-are-cashing-in-on-their-domain-names.html.
SCRIPTURE:
https://biblehub.com/matthew/23-12.htm.