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.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

30 pointsby speckxtoday at 6:49 PM21 commentsview on HN

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fabsteitoday at 8:07 PM

A concrete counterexample: plantura.garden is a large, reputable German-language gardening magazine / brand, and probably exactly the kind of legitimate site one would expect on .garden.

So while the abuse numbers may well justify treating newly registered / low-reputation .garden domains with suspicion, blanket-blocking the entire TLD seems like it would create real collateral damage.

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sikozutoday at 7:48 PM

I had no idea the .garden TLD even existed. Having just checked Porkbun, it seems like they go for $1.54 which is pretty cheap. No wonder they're being abused.

If you have a cheap TLD of course bad actors will buy a bunch.

OutOfHeretoday at 7:53 PM

It is absurd to consider a TLD bad just because it's cheap and its names were registered by some bad people. It's a bad case of stereotyping. Filters need to be better than this. There are plenty of good names within a TLD.

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microgpttoday at 8:32 PM

This website seems to be blocking me. Must be in a bad neighborhood.

mandrade2today at 9:31 PM

damn I got git.garden

qasderghytfgyttoday at 9:42 PM

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wartywhoa23today at 8:59 PM

They'd better compare the abuse statistics, in wide all-things-considered¹ sense, of .garden to that of .ai.

¹As in abuse of planet's resources, economy, job market and on human sanity and patience.