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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I never said they were. I just said .d means directory in another context

[–] whithom@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, a .com is a CP/M binary file introduced in ~1975, whereas the TLD wasn’t introduced until 1985. So, put that in your pipe and smoke it. 😝

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah that's weird too. So would a TLD of .txt or .doc or can you imagine a TLD of .html?

They're all weird just to various degrees.

Why would you want .d as a TLD? To me it would just be weird and confusing.

[–] whithom@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

.a, .b, .c…

Why are they limiting us? Seems like ICANN has an unfair position.

Someone should start a competing dns that allows domain registrations with single letter domains.

That’s kind of how .onion works (for dns)

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You haven't answered why somebody would want these confusing tlds

[–] whithom@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s not confusing. It’s just a tld.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] whithom@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A url is a url. If your only concern is that it might be confusing to the user, then we shouldn’t have TLDs at all.

googIe.com and google.com are different. What now? Force serif fonts?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Literally insane take