Never Buy A .online Domain
I’ve been a .com purist for over two decades of building. Once, I broke that rule and bought a .online TLD for a small project. This is the story of how it went up in flames. Update: Within 40 minutes of posting this on HN, the site has been removed from Google’s Safe Search blacklist. Thank you, unknown Google hero! I’ve emailed Radix to remove the darn serverHold. Update 2: The site is finally back online. Not linking here as I don’t want this to look like a marketing stunt. Link at the bottom if you’re curious. [4] Post, for posterity, below. Namecheap’s Alluring Offer Earlier this year, Namecheap was running a promo that let you choose one free .online or .site per account. I was working on a small product and thought, “hey, why not?” The app was a small browser, and the .online…
