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These are fun but regular people have so much difficulty with them. I once snagged a 4 letter .net address that was the last 3 letters of my first name with the first initial of my last name as the last character. I thought I was so clever. I had the shortest email address you could ever imagine and it was basically just my first name and last initial. Amazing! Nobody got it. It was confusing. I got blank stares and…
They tend to really just be suitable as a supplementary domain for short links and the like (youtu.be, goo.gl, etc.)
These are fun but regular people have so much difficulty with them. I once snagged a 4 letter .net address that was the last 3 letters of my first name with the first initial of my last name as the last character. I thought I was so clever. I had the shortest email address you could ever imagine and it was basically just my first name and last initial. Amazing! Nobody got it. It was confusing. I got blank stares and…
These are fun but regular people have so much difficulty with them. I once snagged a 4 letter .net address that was the last 3 letters of my first name with the first initial of my last name as the last character. I thought I was so clever. I had the shortest email address you could ever imagine and it was basically just my first name and last initial. Amazing! Nobody got it. It was confusing. I got blank stares and…
I have actually needed to use it, because my cell provider (Visible) has absolutely moronic form validation that doesn't recognize a hyphen as a valid character in an email address, even though it very much is. (My main .net domain has a hyphen in it)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
It's always struck me as odd that TLDs are not just, well, freely configurable? Domains have always been subject to so much artificial scarcity for seemingly no reason. Why can't a DNS resolver handle .whatever?
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Not sure it's possible because dotCom is owned by verisign and designated to the internet root servers. Your ISP, ISP Peering DNS, and any other DNS service would override any of your DNS zones. It does make me wonder if I hosted my own root servers for a new dotCom tld would I get chased down by the internet police?
No, there's no internet police who would stop you from doing that. However you had better point your .com to Verisign's .com or so many things won't work when connected to your DNS server. Also you will never get IANA to recognise you as the new authority for .com which means people will need to go out of their way to use your root zone instead of the de-facto-standard one published by IANA. It's a bit like signing y…
Agreed. At least in 2016 we got the US to give up its veto power to the PTI which has global oversight. Still ofc the ICANN is just another company based in Los Angeles and falls under California and US legal jurisdiction. I would much prefer control be transferred to the UN ITU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
It's always struck me as odd that TLDs are not just, well, freely configurable? Domains have always been subject to so much artificial scarcity for seemingly no reason. Why can't a DNS resolver handle .whatever?
These are fun but regular people have so much difficulty with them. I once snagged a 4 letter .net address that was the last 3 letters of my first name with the first initial of my last name as the last character. I thought I was so clever. I had the shortest email address you could ever imagine and it was basically just my first name and last initial. Amazing! Nobody got it. It was confusing. I got blank stares and…
Very true, I found a similar issue with vanity/hack domains too. Picked up https://jo.hn a couple of years ago and the confusion it causes isn't really worth the cool-factor most of the time! They tend to really just be suitable as a supplementary domain for short links and the like (youtu.be, goo.gl, etc.)
I can see why many companies end up paying lots of money to transition over to .com when they get to a certain size.
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You could've found an EU person to hold the domains for you btw. Regardless, it's usually politically safest to put your domains under your own country's ccTLD. That way, you're exposed to one fewer country's dumb politics.
> you're exposed to one fewer country's dumb politics. That would be .co.uk, so, jail time for hosting memes.
These are fun but regular people have so much difficulty with them. I once snagged a 4 letter .net address that was the last 3 letters of my first name with the first initial of my last name as the last character. I thought I was so clever. I had the shortest email address you could ever imagine and it was basically just my first name and last initial. Amazing! Nobody got it. It was confusing. I got blank stares and…