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I would tolerate the ICANN TLD money-grabbing scheme, but the "new" TLDs are a little more than an indication of bad taste. I can't be the only one to dislike anything more than 3 characters in a TLD, like .cloud or .engineering.
What’s the problem with longer length tlds?
There is already http://microsoft.bing . See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom... .
Which redirects to bing.com, proving that they really have no use for the .bing TLD other than to prevent someone else from grabbing it.
The real problem is can I still type weirdfilename.exe into the browser bar and get to a search engine?
The answer is clear, if you want to stay in the past, then go with .com, but the .future is in vanity TLDs. For more information, check out my website https://ok.boomer and considering buying a .boomer domain today!
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In practice URLs often cannot be more than 2K characters. It's also more work to type and bytes to transmit and harder to see on small screens. For many use cases these are irreverent, but they do matter to some.
Where is 2K a limit these days?
> The Google Chrome browser supports a maximum length of a web page URL of 2 MB (2048 characters) in size.
taken from [0]. Do note that this is a restriction created by the browser developers. In theory a URL can be of arbitrary length. Some browsers (like Firefox) do comply with this, though they might now show the full URL to the user, cutting it off after a certain number of characters.
[0]: https://mywebshosting.com/what-is-the-maximum-url-length-lim...
Needs (2011): http://web.archive.org/web/20110321001950/https://www.temple...
It might even be older according to the main page ("mostly written in 2001")[0]. Sure would be helpful if the author included a publish date. Many blog entries (and stack overflow type solutions) need time context (it may have been the solution/a reasonable position at the time ) https://www.templetons.com/brad/dns/
I would tolerate the ICANN TLD money-grabbing scheme, but the "new" TLDs are a little more than an indication of bad taste. I can't be the only one to dislike anything more than 3 characters in a TLD, like .cloud or .engineering.
Heck, let Big Tech take .google/.apple/.amazon/.comcast etc if that's what it takes to get this done. Point being to keep the root pollution to a finite amount rather than the ongoing sell off of any name imaginable.
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Where is 2K a limit these days?
Chromium based browsers! > The Google Chrome browser supports a maximum length of a web page URL of 2 MB (2048 characters) in size. taken from [0]. Do note that this is a restriction created by the browser developers. In theory a URL can be of arbitrary length. Some browsers (like Firefox) do comply with this, though they might now show the full URL to the user, cutting it off after a certain number of characters. [0…
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Where is 2K a limit these days?
Chromium based browsers! > The Google Chrome browser supports a maximum length of a web page URL of 2 MB (2048 characters) in size. taken from [0]. Do note that this is a restriction created by the browser developers. In theory a URL can be of arbitrary length. Some browsers (like Firefox) do comply with this, though they might now show the full URL to the user, cutting it off after a certain number of characters. [0…