Hello everyone!

I'd like to discuss a situation I think a lot of people are wonderin about. Why is e621.net a .net site? Hopefully some moderators can weigh in, but just post your thoughts!

"live like there's no tomorrow, learn like there's a lifetime ahead."

Does it really matter? .net, .com, .whatever, why does it hold bearing to anything?

Also, e6 does not support signatures and they're unnecessary.

My guess: You'd have to ask the previous management.

I also kinda wonder about the difference between .com, .net, and .org.

Top level domains are basically "leased out" from ICANN to various companies and organizations. These organizations have their own rules about how the domain should be operated. In some cases like with DoD's .mil, it is apparent that there are strict rules guiding who can get a domain name and for what purpose they will use it. Whereas with .com, .net, and .org, anybody can get a name for any purpose, because the registrar wants hard cash. According to Wikipedia, .net, one of the original top level domains, was originally intended for "organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other infrastructure companies" when it came into being in 1985. It wasn't enforced.

Now that there's all this buzz over the .xxx tld, you might ask, why not move everything to e621.xxx? For one, .net, .com and others aren't going to ban pornographic domains. There will be no pornography trail of "tears". Schools, workplaces and possibly even an ISP or two are going to blacklist *.xxx anyway, so it's not like it will result in more "exposure". The tld will mostly act as a racket to get respectable institutions to buy up their trademarks and redirect them to their real domains.

A better question is "why call it e621?" I suspect the answer is the same: it was a whim.

I hear ICANN has changed or is changing the rules so that you can pretty much have your address literally be http://whatever.the.fuckyouwan.t and it'll be kosher.

trfg7xz2oxps said:
A better question is "why call it e621?" I suspect the answer is the same: it was a whim.

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Because furry is inherently saccharine?

I can't answer this question with complete certainty, but the most likely answer is just that someone had already registered the e621.com domain, and so the next best thing we could get was e621.net.

As for the name itself, from what I understand, the old administration wanted a name that was not really a furry name, and ultimately decided on e621 (another name for MSG) because they wanted the site to be "full of flavor" or something.

RedOctober said:
I hear ICANN has changed or is changing the rules so that you can pretty much have your address literally be http://whatever.the.fuckyouwan.t and it'll be kosher.

Yeah, for $200,000 and rigorous board approval.

I can't wait for e621.coke

trfg7xz2oxps said:
I can't wait for e621.coke

I can't wait for e621.yiff or e621.murr.
Better yet, e621.fur.
It would be awesome to see .fur as a TLD.

Well, I think dot-p2p tried to do that. Looks like the project is dead though. http://www.opennicproject.org/

trfg7xz2oxps said:
Well, I think dot-p2p tried to do that. Looks like the project is dead though. http://www.opennicproject.org/

I can't register a .fur domain :(

Riversyde said:
I can't register a .fur domain :(

There's a bunch of technical setup you need to do to use their service and lookup domains that use their TLDs. So even if you could register a .fur domain, maybe 6 or 7 people in the world could actually visit it.

Like many such hippie projects, I like the idea, but I think their approach is completely unworkable.

ikdind said:
There's a bunch of technical setup you need to do to use their service and lookup domains that use their TLDs. So even if you could register a .fur domain, maybe 6 or 7 people in the world could actually visit it.

Like many such hippie projects, I like the idea, but I think their approach is completely unworkable.

secret domains~

Riversyde said:
I can't wait for e621.yiff or e621.murr.
Better yet, e621.fur.
It would be awesome to see .fur as a TLD.

That would be AWESOME!!!

RedOctober said:
you can pretty much have your address literally be http://whatever.the.fuckyouwan.t and it'll be kosher.

Nice.

And also, what characterizes a .net vs other .xxx's?
Food for thought!

Char said:
I can't answer this question with complete certainty, but the most likely answer is just that someone had already registered the e621.com domain, and so the next best thing we could get was e621.net.

A question: what's the deal with said person who owns e621.com anyway? He also owns e621.de. Why does he need both sites? He's a freaking German architect. And who knows why HE chose the name. I don't see any relation between MSG and architecture.

I did not know that! And maybe the name was just a whim? I'm not sure.

hg3300 said:
A question: what's the deal with said person who owns e621.com anyway? He also owns e621.de. Why does he need both sites? He's a freaking German architect. And who knows why HE chose the name. I don't see any relation between MSG and architecture.

Fucking Nazis!
First they start WW2, and now they steal our domain names!

Munkelzahn said:
Fucking Nazis!
First they start WW2, and now they steal our domain names!

We must start another world war to get them back!
"WW3: They Invaded Our Internet"

Riversyde said:
We must start another world war to get them back!
"WW3: They Invaded Our Internet"

Nnnnoooo! My thread is not going to be the instigation of the 3rd world war haha! Germany is pretty cool, but what they did before wasn't.

why .not?

also

.net|work
.org|anization
.com|munity
.gov|ernment
.edu|cation

dasf said:

also

.net|work
.org|anization
.com|mercial
.gov|ernment
.edu|cation

You forgot:

.xxx|wasabadmovie

.au|spicious
.us|eless

Riversyde said:
.au|spicious
.us|eless

Nice...

And @Dasf thanks for the reference. I don't know if many people know about those. The only one I'm not familiar with is that fact that .com is community.

Jjiped said:
The only one I'm not familiar with is that fact that .com is community.

Except, as Snowy tried pointing out, .com *doesn't* stand for community. It stands for *commercial*.

I figured Snowy's correction was all that needed saying, thus I attempted to derail the thread with humor. :) And I almost succeeded! Curses! Next time, Internet...

.fur is a real thing, but you have to use a DNS service I forget the name of that nobody uses for it to work.

Why .not? :]

cookiekangaroo said:
Why .not? :]

Lol www.freemoney.NOT haha!

.uk|elele

RedOctober said:
.uk|ulele

Why do people in this thread keep screwing up what domain names stand for?

Snowy said:
Why do people in this thread keep screwing up what domain names stand for?

Fat cells from sedentary lifestyles are clogging brains.

Ultima_Weapon said:
Fat cells from sedentary lifestyles are clogging brains.

Also it's fun, and it makes me feel like a hipster!

Aw fuck, I misspelled ukulele. My bad.

Snowy said:
Why do people in this thread keep screwing up what domain names stand for?

For fu.nz|ies

You guys are silly.