Primarily, the 42 Registry offers a new, experimental, all-numeric Top-Level Domain (TLD): 42.
Experimental TLD .42
wiki.42registry.org
Experimental TLD .42
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Re: Experimental TLD .42
#2Marvelous, I'll register 0.42 and host my blog at 192.168.0.42. What could go wrong?
Re: Experimental TLD .42
#3Marvelous, I'll register 0.42 and host my blog at 192.168.0.42. What could go wrong?
Not much, I'd imagine. First, since this isn't an ICANN thing, the new TLD will only affect a tiny minority of people who choose to change their DNS servers. Second, I'd imagine most software would try 192.168.0.42 the IP address before 192.168.0.42 the domain, if only because the latter requires a DNS query. So at worst, nobody will read your blog.
Re: Experimental TLD .42
#4Marvelous, I'll register 0.42 and host my blog at 192.168.0.42. What could go wrong?
Not much, I'd imagine. First, since this isn't an ICANN thing, the new TLD will only affect a tiny minority of people who choose to change their DNS servers. Second, I'd imagine most software would try 192.168.0.42 the IP address before 192.168.0.42 the domain, if only because the latter requires a DNS query. So at worst, nobody will read your blog.
AIUI, all software should interpret it as an ipv4 address, because the first character in the tld is a digit. www.example.42 should result in failure without a dns lookup for the same reason.
(I know, sarcasm doesn't travel well online.)