Quote from: othe on November 21, 2015, 07:28:10 AM

i would personally go with a more generic oldschool TLD like .org or .com.

The _?_cash.org appears to be registered to a domain squatter, so probably for sale for some several $1000s.

The _?_cash.net is held by the trademark plaintiff. And the _?_cash.com appears to still be held by the one who was sued by the plaintiff before the turn of the century. Neither of these parties has shown any capability to put the name to productive use since turn the of the century. It appears the EU (Germany) registered trademark expired in 2011.

netcash.org is $2,171 (or $1,888) and netcash.co is $1,229.

netcash.net had only a failed attempt at a website at the turn of the century and nothing since.

netcash.com has an ongoing website that seems dysfunctional.

The problem with both of those choices is the unlikely (or very high cost) to obtain the .com and .net domains. This is somewhat of a disadvantage when prospective viral users type the name directly in the address bar, but typically users use Google to access websites. And Google should point to the most popular listing for a search term, so not having the .com and .net may not be as big of an issue as others may claim.

Other reasons to not prefer the netcash name choice:

Cash only for the internet is not entirely general use of digital money, and users typically think of mobile phones as distinct from "the internet".
Not differentiated from other variants of saying "internet money", e.g. webcash, cashnet, cashweb, inetcash, onlinecash.
Term "net cash" also has a meaning "net cash flow" in business or accounting context.

As a precaution (plan B), I registered netcash.cash for $25, netcash.io for $33, netcash.pw for $2, and netcash.cc for $19 so now I am the current registrant of:

net.cash netcash.cash netcash.cc netcash.click netcash.io netcash.me netcash.pw

Quote from: othe on November 21, 2015, 07:28:10 AM

Alternatively check out .to domains, they don´t give a fuck about the USA and are the only ones who even ignore whois rules from icann.
A bit pricey with 99usd per year tho.

Thank you for bringing that arcane morsel of valuable information to my attention. I had noticed that .to TLD and wasn't aware why it was favored:

https://www.tonic.to/faq.htm#7

netcash.to was not available, but I did register the name I really want _?_cash.to. So that is yet another insurance that my use of that somewhat controversial name can't end up in a near-term legal loss (and near-term is all that matters since if successful then popularity and open source will overpower any legal recourse).

I also registered both _?_cash.ec and (for the subdomain _?_.) cash.ec (for the "_?_ DOT cash" interpretation).

So that wraps up my search for names and domain names. This is now very well set and ready to roll. So now I just need to code, code, code.

Btw, as for the ongoing issue of protection against fascism and totalitarianism w.r.t. to action taken against or by the NICs for the country level TLDs, I feel Tonga would cave in eventually to G20 pressure. So long-term we need a decentralized .bit type solution.