hm, even if browsers do eventually hide the TLD it'd be nice to have a catchy extension in the meantime for adoption I'm pretty atproto naive, but maybe domain owners would still want to host a traditional website at sam.whatever too
@dotmeow.org is a good example of a 2026 applicant with a credible public plan to apply for one string .at is Austria
dotcom.press/tld-wiki?tld=at
(and all two-letter TLDs are reserved for countries)
But .handle and .atproto are not yet spoken for The base fee for the 2026 gTLD round is $227k and the yearly fixed fee is $25k, so that's the $250k right there...but my sense is that owning and operating a TLD would be much more expensive and technically challenging And that's not including auctions! (like $25m Google paid for .app in 2012)
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Interesting! 2026 gTLD round opens at the end of the month so would have to move fast
If anyone applies for an atproto string lmk! Might be something to write about on dotcom.press 
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We heard you loud and clear, so we went ahead and built the git graph.
experimenting with a video walkthrough of the (new) val town changelog, out yesterday
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqa... looks nice! btw you can add custom subdomains for prettier urls
docs.val.town/vals/http/custom-subdomains i think it’s going / they achieved a bunch of stuff - @schuyler.info is one of the main folks i haven't because i'm fastmail 4 lyfe, but it's probably pretty good in the specific ways that most 37signals stuff is
this is kind of what hey.com does - new emails always go into a screener instead of your 'imbox' oh, and to deliver that data aesthetically and cheaply, protomaps has basically solved that problem, anyone can get great looking maps for very little $ protomaps.com openstreetmap's hiking trail coverage is pretty decent, strava has been backing their updates into it for years because they use mapbox so that's where their map data comes from.
i bet 'alltrails' is the next thing to be rebuilt on atproto if it hasn't already
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planetscale.com/blog/pattern... credit @stevekrouse.com for the rec! (via @geoffreylitt.com I believe) just switched from mac native dictation to aquavoice.com and it's so, so much better sure, i guess my personal prejudice is that i love everything that isn't natural language for creation and despite the manager-employee dialog that vibecoding operates on
sure, i didn't mean to do a descartes, we have to affect the world, but i don't think that the mediums of guitar/painting/writing/etc are similar to the medium of llms