I'm hopelessly immature (fun with TLDs)

mrchristian thought this was worth mentioning said Mon, Jul 3rd 2017 at 2:54am ET

So, I discovered the other day that the .wang TLD (domain suffix {prefix if you’re pedantic]) is available for registration.

It takes a bunch of hoop jumping, liberal application of Google Translate, and patience- but it can be done.

I registered through west.xyz . Fair warning though- you have to put a minimum of $25 in your “account” to register. The domain is $2 a year.

Oh yeah- It’s $2 freaking dollars a year.

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narfcake said Mon, Jul 3rd 2017 at 3:12am ET:

I’m predicting that none would be used for this kind of wang:

/image Wang computers 1

/image Wang computers

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- @narfcake Fun fact: I owned a Wang VS65. It was in my bedroom and before I could fire it up (late at night), I need to make sure many of the other breakers in the house were flipped off.
  
  http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home/equipment/wang-vs65
  
  mrchristian said Mon, Jul 3rd 2017 at 3:26am ET
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- @narfcake I’m amazed that you were able to get such PG images from a random image search.
  
  Willijs3 said Mon, Jul 3rd 2017 at 3:14pm ET
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- @Willijs3 Heh! Now, let’s see what /giphy does …
  /giphy Wang computers
  
  (Curse you, ~~/giphy~~ @trillian!)
  
  narfcake said Mon, Jul 3rd 2017 at 3:30pm ET
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djslack said Mon, Jul 3rd 2017 at 2:32pm ET:

@hanzov69 Most of the ones I thought of failed dns lookup so they might be available. I’m on my phone so not going to jump through hoops to do real checking.

The one that acted differently never loaded a site, but didn’t fail immediately. Did you register enormous.wang?

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