Sorry to hear about that, because if you troll the zone files enough you'll find .diamonds is a favorite for piss fetishists

Does it matter? I'm sure 99% of .com is porn, but it doesn't seem to bother any of the stogy large corporations that have .com domains.

If I were Mr. Diamond, my opinion would be "why should I change, they're the ones who suck."

.bolton

If you troll the zone files, you’ll see the whole internet is a favorite for a whole variety of things.

I have http://edd.xxx/ as my personal domain, which I’m sure is not doing great things for my SEO (or accessibility from heavily controlled corporate networks!), but hey, people remember it. And I have another more sanitised domain that I give out when needed…

I suspect you mean trawl, not troll

Troll actually means a similar thing!

OED confirms, TIL! Thanks!

And that's why Internet trolling is called that -- back in the Usenet days it was "trolling for newbies". Dragging your baited line around and seeing who'd bite.

In this case troll makes even more sense as it involves dragging bait around rather than nets.

but why

… how would you know that?! Hahahahah

I own max.bond, but I've not done anything with it quite yet!

That’s the opposite of my situation: I have a tonne of ideas, but .pastuszak ain’t happening any time soon!

caleb.tennis checking in

Did you all pay $185k for these?

I paid an embarrassing amount of money (as I purchased it on the secondary market), but not even 1% of $185k. .bond was originally created for Bond University who presumably did pay something like that; they sold the TLD to ShortDot, and now it's marketed to people selling bonds.

My domain is like $8 a year from cloudflare

how much do these unique TLDs cost?

Back in the early 2000s, I was the (very short tenured) leaseholder of iam.coop, until I fell short of their registration requirements.

Were you simply being uncooperative?

(Couldn't resist)

Interestingly, I discovered a few years ago that my first name is a TLD.