[Tech] Most popular Top-Level Domains

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

The Lupa crawler now displays most-popular TLD (Top-Level Domains) in
the geminispace by number of registered domains and no longer by
number of capsules
<gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi>. This is
because popular hosting service using subdomains (like
flounder.online) tweak the statistics too much if you count capsules.

[The definition of "registered domains" is taken from Mozilla's Public
Suffix List <https://publicsuffix.org/>, which is not authoritative
but is better than nothing.]

With this, we have currently:

* com: 65 domains
* net: 42 domains
* org: 40 domains
* space: 25 domains
* xyz: 20 domains
* me: 13 domains
* club: 11 domains
* dev: 10 domains
* uk: 9 domains
* de: 9 domains
* eu: 8 domains
* ch: 7 domains
* info: 5 domains
* io: 5 domains
* moe: 4 domains
* tk: 4 domains
* site: 4 domains
* example: 4 domains
* se: 4 domains
* online: 4 domains

I suspect that many people choose a TLD for their capsule just because
it "looks cool" or because it is the cheapest at this time. But pay
attention, not all TLD have the same rules and when a dispute occurs,
the choice of TLD can be very important. The EFF (Electronic Frontier
Foundation) made a very good report about that "Which Internet
Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?"
<https://www.eff.org/wp/which-internet-registries-offer-best-protection-domain-owners>. Read
it before choosing a name for your capsule!

You may think "OK, what's the problem if .me depends on montenegrin
law and .com on US law, I do not host political content, p0rn or file
sharing, so I risk nothing" but this is not true, any name can get you
the unwelcome attention of lawyers, for instance because they find
your name too close from their trademarks.