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Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken

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Re: Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken

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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…

Do you get the same confused look when your email is @gmx.de or @free.fr or any other lesser known provider? I suppose you've never had this problem because you aren't using those providers, but many people do.

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Re: Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken

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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?

What's odd is there seems to be no viable alternatives to DNS at all. Everybody just standardized on this ancient phone book technology managed by some rent seeking "assigned numbers" organization and now there is no escape from it.

I think about this too. It would be easy enough to make your own DNS alternative or use the exact same protocol but remap domains as you please.
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