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Cake day: November 8th, 2024

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  • A “custom” top-level domain like .observer or .works isn’t something Neocities itself creates, those are real, officially registered TLDs managed by large domain registries (companies approved by ICANN).

    Someone (a company, not an individual) applies to ICANN and pays hundreds of thousands of dollars to operate a new TLD like .works.

    Once approved, they sell subdomains under it, so corru.works is just a normal domain name purchased from that registry, like buying myname.com.

    Neocities then lets users point their sites to those domains (by updating DNS records), but it doesn’t own or create the TLDs itself.

    So yes, creating your own TLD is expensive and complex, but using a newer one (like .observer or .works) is easy and cheap, you just register it through any domain provider.






  • My aunt regularly interrogated me about my decision-making, schedule and personal relationships

    Without realizing it, I fell into a habit of explaining myself to her. I lost a lot of autonomy. She strictly enforced the practice of getting her approval before doing anything.

    I learned to hide things and sneak around her. It made her furious.

    She learned to manipulate, lie and bully me into giving her what she wanted.

    She was being selfish and intrusive and neither of us realized it. She considers herself to be a protector and provider, and cannot admit that sometimes she’s an abuser.

    These days I don’t trust her with information or control. She calls me (and the other members of her immediate family) a “privacy hoarder”.

    I’m very hurt, and I don’t plan on ever feeling better about it