Hasty Treat - The Domain Name Game

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Welcome to Syntax ESLint this Monday. Hasty treat. We're gonna be playing the top level domain game where we it's been a while since we've done this. So if you you haven't heard a top level domain game episode, what we do, basically, is we pick a top level domain from a list and the other person needs to guess it. We'll give you a a better rundown of the rules right before we start, but let's get into it. My name is Scott Tolinski. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado. And with me, as always, is

Wes Bos. Hey, everybody.

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Alright. Thank you. Log Rocket. Now if only Log Rocket could have saved me from the last time we played the TLD game, I really got worked. I think I had a bit of a comeback, but I think I ultimately lost out to to the Wes. Wes, the the I'm trying to come up with a cool nickname for you, but I guess it's just Wes Bare. The domain Node master.

Yeah. Let's talk about how the points are. So we're gonna pick a t l d. A t l d is top level domain. Like, that means Scott or whatever. And Scott has 4, I have 4, and the the other person has to Wes, is it for a country, or is it, like, a business or marketing domain name? So we'll pick 1 that we we've did before. Scott a f. Is that for a country, or is that for a a business that that can register that? The second 1 is what type of country business is it for? So you have to guess the country, or you have to guess what Scott of, like, what it's targeted at.

The third thing is how much per year does it cost to register? And you may also say unregisterable because there are some domain names out there that have been claimed by companies that cannot be registered by you. Like, we just talked about this earlier. There's a Scott Node Depot and a dot T. J. Maxx, and you can't just go register those. Those Yarn those are saved by the companies.

And then finally, the last 1 JS, is Scott dot whatever and Scott there in West Scott whatever available? So, we're going to give you points for each of those.

Whoever wins, wins.

Cool. So do you want a rock, paper, scissors for the first one? Whoever wins goes 1st. Okay. Do you do rock, paper, scissors, throw?

Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Although throw is way more Canadian. Of course, we do would say shoot in America here. Of course. Yeah.

Rock Tuck, paper, scissors,

Throw.

Okay. He cut I go 1st. Paper. Yeah. Alright. My first domain that you have to guess is dot Wes d.

Is that a country or a business?

Dot s d.

It is a country.

Correct.

What country or business is Wes El Salvador.

No. It is Sudan.

Wes is for Sudan, and I Node. Wes CSS is for South Sudan. I just learned. I'm at 0 points now. Next one, how much does it cost to register a domain name? So I just typed in Scott.

So you have to tell me how much does it cost per year. Do we have to search for Scott dot Wes to determine that? Or Yeah. That that's what I'm basing it off of. Should we just always use Scott?

Yeah. Yeah. Keystone here.

I'm gonna say it's 49

Incorrect.

It is 100 and $75. Oh, come on. So you are that's 175 minus 49. You're at negative 126

points. Man, this point thing really gets me. Alright. Is Scott available? I'm gonna say no.

It is available.

What? Alright. Mine is 10. Man, I'm getting worked already. Alright. I will say Wes is also available.

Oh, good.

It is available.

Yay. I finally did not lose points. So I I come out at the end of that round.

Fantastic round for me. I come out at, negative Wes, so that's great.

Love it.

Alright. Hit me with what you got. Okay. So my first one for you,

this one's good, dot0ng.

Oh, o n g?

Yep.

I'm gonna say business.

It is business, so you get plus 5.

So what type of business is it for? I am going to say it is a unregisterable I'm so I'm I'm going ahead here, but I'm gonna say the type of business is some some sort of, like, something something group, and this is gonna be some sort of business that is unregisterable.

So I'm gonna say, what type is business support? It's for a large corporation.

It's for a large corporation.

No. You're wrong.

If it says private registration, does that mean it's unregisterable?

I think so. Yes.

Mhmm. Because it does have a price. I shouldn't have said this before. Oh, it does have a price? Okay. Hold on. Yeah. Then maybe not. Wes, like, just try to go ahead and and get it. So hold on. I let's let's go back to the 2nd quarter. It's available. Wes. Okay. Okay.

What type of corporation is it for? It is for a nongovernment

organization.

Woah.

Really? O n g. What does that mean? Operation nongovernment? Organization nongovernment.

Maybe. Yeah. That seems Kinda like a ORG. But Yeah. Interesting. Never heard of that one. How much does it cost to register per year? I'm gonna say $19.

$19 runies. It is $49. Node.

That don't don't don't act like that's a big hit. That's not a big hit. You could lost 30 points, so you're at negative 30 points here. And is Scott and Wes available? I'm gonna go ahead and say

yes to both.

And both are available. So you get an additional 20 points, which means you come out negative 10. So the total at the end of round 1 is looking very similar to last time. Negative 126 to negative 10. I'm really bad with these prices. That's definitely gonna be my,

Achilles' heel here. I've got a next one for you. It is dotkoeln.

That is going to be from a business? Yes.

Okay.

So

what type of business is colon? I saw this one, and I was like, what could that possibly be? It's actually not pronounced colon.

It's going to be for, coconut trees.

Close, but not at all. Dot cologne.

So it JS a TLD friends.

Made for businesses of the Cologne community as well as residents of the city itself. So Cologne is a city in Germany, and I guess that's how they spell it in German. That was a good one. That was rough. That was a rough the r u f f rough.

I got even rougher one coming for you.

No. Okay. So pricing here pricing on this one, I'm gonna go with $49 again.

That was pretty close. 29.

Okay. Okay.

Okay. So I can do some math here. 49 by 29, obviously.

Minus 20 points.

So I'm currently at negative 46 points. Well, I'm gonna say Wes and Scott are available, both of them. They are. Ding ding.

I have survived this round with no change in points, so I'm still at negative 126. That's fantastic. I'm very happy about that. Okay. Well, I have a fun one for you. How about this 1? Good luck.

Dotc0.ke.

Coke.

K. I'm going to say this is a country.

This is a country. You're trying to throw me that it's Coke. It's not. It's, I'm gonna say it's Kenya. I see.

Wes. It's Kenya.

Yes.

Dang. Gotcha. How'd you know this was Kenya?

Because the Kenya is, like, one of the only countries that starts with k e, and I know there's a lot of countries that don't have a dot whatever. They have a dot c o dot their their name. Like, toadotjp is Japan.

Mhmm.

Oh, he is salty, folks. Salty. How much does it cost to register a SEO? I'm gonna go with, $39.

54.

Woah. That's pretty close. That's not bad. Yeah. That's not bad. That's a win in my books. That's the closest we've been. That's that's only negative fifteen points for you.

Is Scott and Wes available? I'm gonna say Scott is not and Wes is.

You're gonna even out there. Big old whopping 0 on those because they're both available. So you have lost 5 points this round, which means you are Kenyans named Scott. Yes. Apparently. Yeah. So the current point total is negative 126 to negative 15. Wes, you're basically hanging tight, treading water, and I am plundering here, although last trend was was decently okay for me. Okay. So let's get into the next Node. Wes, what do you got for me? Dottr.

T r is going to be a country.

Yep. So that's 55 points from me. Now I gotta keep these 5 points. That's t r.

Man, my, memory this morning is just not going really great. I'm scanning the globe in my brain, in my visual brain space. I'm seeing the countries and projecting the map in onto a a a sphere instead of onto a plane.

Is it for Trinidad?

No.

Turkey.

Oh, that Trinidad was an okay guess. What is their TLD? Dottt, I think. Trinidad and Tobago. Yeah. It's dottt. I had I had a concern that Tobago had a part of this.

How much does it cost to red shirt? They go with my, my good old friend, $49.

Nailed it.

Is it really? Yeah.

Cool. Hey. 0 album, that's the first one that you Node. Yeah. Heck yeah. Nailed it. But there should be bonus points if you get it, like, exactly. Next time, we'll do that. We should just wipe out my negative 126. That's what we should.

Is Scott dot t r available? Scott dot t r.

I would say Scott is not available. Wes is available.

Even now, they're both not available. Both not available.

Mark. Yeah. Okay. So I have, ended this round with a big old zeros on the board. Negative 126.

That was a a good round for me. Did not lose any more points. Okay. Wes, I have for you dot I s t.

Dot I s t.

Oh, international space travel, Maybe.

I'm gonna say it's a business, not a country.

Woah. It's a country? Istanbul.

It is Istanbul.

Woah.

It was just actually a city. Right? Istanbul. Yeah. So

that was interesting because that that's a new one. Like, that's not I've been around for a while, but it is a geographical one.

The Scott cologne could be either there because it it was made for business purposes, but it also is geographical.

Oh.

But, you you you got points for that. I'll give it to you. Alright. How much does it cost to register to IST? I'm going to go with

$29.

19.

Oh.

So negative 10 there.

Is Scott available? I'm gonna say Scott is not and Wes is because it's kinda cool, ist. Yeah. That is kind of a cool Yeah. Scott.

They are both available.

Wow. Scottist. Get it. Yeah. I know. Right? Okay. So the you have rounded up that round with a a negative 10. So you were if we play this game for, like, 20 plus rounds, I might actually come out on top. The current score is negative 126 to negative 25. So doing pretty good, Wes.

I have got a good one for you. Oh, no. This might be a little bit out of bounds, but I'm going for it. There's no rules against it.

Out of bounds.

Dotxndashdash45q11c.

Xndashdash 45q11c.

It is a business? Correct.

K.

Is it like a debugging type of a top level domain, like an actual, technical use for this top level domain? No. There's not nothing technical about it. Nothing technical about it. It just exists.

Companies domain. Okay. I can pronounce it for you if you want.

Yeah.

Scott Bagua.

Seems like it's a Chinese thing.

Yeah. Okay. I'll give you that. Okay.

What do you mean, like, to get points for it? I'll give you let's give give them 5 points for knowing it's a Chinese domain name. K? Because like, I think we both know right now. It's a that's the ASCII representation of a Chinese character domain name. The okay. So that's really interesting.

ASCII characters. Okay. So, Bagua, what's it what's it for, though? So Bagua converts to gossip in Chinese. Oh, man. There's no way I would ever know Bagua.

They don't I watched a lot of Chinese films, and they don't ever, talk about gossip that much. So okay. So next question JS, how much does it cost? Is it an it's for gossip? Cost of money then, I'm gonna say it's $29.

It's, like, a100000.

324.90.

Node on.

324.

Oh,

Wes. Is Scott dot Bagua available? Yes.

And what about Wes? Yes.

They're both available. So if you got 700 boxes, you can get them up.

Congratulations to me.

I got I got I got 20 points minus, 20 plus points minus a hun 295 points.

No sense because if you screw up Node price, you're shot. You're totally shot. We talked about fixing this at the end of last time, and, of course, the benefactor of this all did not want to listen to that. So, let's see how many points I actually have right now. It is, 20 minus 295 minus 126.

Oh, come on. I did so well.

Negative 401 points, so that's great. Congratulations to me. Alright. Well, try nail me a Scott. No. No. I'm not gonna have any bag wise here. Okay? It's not gonna happen.

It is dotreit.

Oh, Real Estate Investment Trust. That's a business that's, dedicated to real estate, and it's going to cost

So you okay. Well, you didn't even wait for me to say yes. Okay. Well, I know. Okay. Go ahead. Tell me if I'm right. You are.

You are right, sir.

Okay. How much does it cost to get a REIT? I'm gonna say $39.

For Scott dot REIT. Is that true? I got it? No.

Oh. Scott dot REIT Bos $1,499.

Node way.

You are now negative 1460 here.

No.

Getting down to Bagua level here. Wow.

I was so cocky because I knew it. Mhmm.

Mhmm. $1,000.

And Wes is is available. Yes. Give me my 10 points there. And so is Scott.reit.

So, yes, they're both available.

Oh. You rounded up that round because

you finished that round at negative fourteen forty plus negative 126 is oh, no. You don't have negative 126. That's me, 25.

So you finished that round with negative 1465.

No.

Ruh row. Big ruh row.

I lost the game? Oh, looks like the the scoreboard. Yes. Unfortunately, Wes, you have lost the game on the very last round of the game.

Man, that was that was, like, like, a overtime shootout where everyone thought it was fine. I had a huge lead. Even halfway through, I knew what REIT was and the price. Are you sure it's $1,000?

Type it in. Give it do do a verification check if you like.

$100.

Wow.

So sorry.

So sorry about that one. I I was I was feeling charitable. I had a 1 all nice one lined up for you, and then, you went bagua on me, so I had to go, bust out my reed my my back pocket. I thought for sure bagua would would come and kill it. Yep. Alright. Wes the most part, dead. That was good. So, if you like that, let us know. Shoot us a tweet at syntax f m. Hopefully, you learned a few new TLDs today. Anything else to add? No. That was a lot of fun, and, definitely, I think we both have sort of rough mornings. This was a a nice little nice little kickoff to the day, so thanks thanks, Wes. I had a lot of fun. Beautiful. Alright. I'll catch you later. Later.

Peace.

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