It's not about going down with the ship, it's about making a ship that will last. Which is the opposite of what UD did with their billion TLD releases diluting the value of their already existing TLDs.
When the goal is to have universal identity, releasing a billion TLDs your users would have to secure to keep off impersonators was retarded. But their business model REQUIRED that mechanism for them to stay afloat.
Which is how we got all those useless things:
coin, 888, crypto, x, wif, u, retardio, nft, wallet, polygon, pudgy, unstoppable, dao, blockchain, go, zil, bitcoin, austin, raiin, tball, dfz, pog, smobler, lfg, dream, mumu, propykeys, bald, wrkx, secret, ubu, witg, metropolis, chomp, ethermail, xmr, wifi, boomer, clay, stepn, tea, npc, quantum, emir, donut, onchain, caw, podcast, doga, tribe, bay, miku. bitscrunch, privacy, rad, ltc, her, xec, kryptic, kingdom, pastor, ministry, nibi, ask, south, calicoin, altimist, hegecoin, bobi, twin, pbdx, mery, bch, mycircle, derad, og, pendle, dejay, depin, xyo, swamp, pengu, hub, brave, hi, bitget, ath, bunni, collect, housecoin, tigershark, arculus, pundi, ohm, cgai, anyone, dsci, chip, pokt, learn, pilot, gotchi, lunar, digibyte, mooncat, zano, pack, imtoken, manga, anime, troll, web3, supernova, demos, carbon, presearch, ai4, goblin, undeads, marketer, spend, amped, mobix, aura, agent, openx, yellow, averge, cashme, enigma, digitalfuture, horizen, awake, super, xz1, agi, basenji, grow, robot, sonic
How many of those do you think are necessary when you're trying to create a "universal" naming scheme?
And that's not even all of them, .coin for example was sunset due to naming collision vs .coin - people got store credits for their domains 😹
Most recent UD TLD dropped 8 days ago:
"Announcing our newest TLD into the Fam - .xz1 to bring independent artists onchain."
All while not even their oldest ones like .nft are usable - see attached pictures.
And it took them a whole 7 days to go from "new web3 .xz1 TLD, give us your money" to "fuck web3, we outta here".
.xz1 announcement:
x.com/unstoppableweb/status/…
Matt's tweet:
x.com/mattgould/status/20336…
I feel bad for the people who were still UD maxis and buying their names throughout the massive TLD dilution leading towards pivoting out of web3 a week after announcing the latest web3 TLD made to "bring independent artists onchain".
One can only feel bearish about UD. If you were in UD, pivot to ENS.
The .eth is cleaner. And it actually works.