Why do Lemmy instances have such obscure TLDs?

konalt@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 86 points –

Whenever I come across a new lemmy instance, it most likely has some sort of obscure TLD (.world, .ml, .ee, .me, .social just to name a few). Why aren't there more with more common TLDs?

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I went with .boo for mine due to cost and the fact that I’ve never seen it as a TLD before. There are a lot of interesting new ones out there now, might as well use this opportunity to try it out. (Also as an instance admin I’m not trying to make any money off of running an instance so keeping costs as low as possible is ideal)

I'm still waiting on a .ninja. The only site I ever saw with one was basically just serving an animation with ninjas.