HACKER Q&A
📣 davidweatherall

Why are there so many .christmas TLD's appearing on Hacker News?


I've noticed in the past couple weeks a tonne of domains with the christmas TLD have been appearing on hacker news? Currently there's 2 on the front page which seems to have been more than any other month of the year.

Why are there so many popping up? People being festive, having a seasonal-only blog? Or is there a domain provider having a offer on for christmas domains?

  👤 eivarv Accepted Answer ✓
Bekk (a Norwegian consultancy) bought a bunch of domains under the "christmas" TLD, and made bunch of "christmas calendars" [0].

They're probably submitting many of their daily posts from many of their calendars.

[0]: https://bekk.christmas/

👤 kasperni
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

47 so far (not including this post)... Can we make it to 100 before Christmas?

👤 jsjohnst
Funny, was just coming to ask this as well, especially as most I’ve noticed have the same query path as well (/2019/11) for the article link.