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Re:I bought netflix.soy by dheera on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:56PM (#23304886)
Even better yet, it would be interesting if we just abandoned TLDs. There is no reason why http://google/ can't work, really, with a bunch of infrastructure changes.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by tylerhou on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:20PM (#23305112)
Infrastructure changes aren't even needed; Google already owns the .google TLD. All they would need to do is attach an A record to the root.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by three_seagrass on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:44PM (#23306354)
Sure, but why would they?

Can you imagine all the search advertising Google would lose if they allowed just 'nike' and 'att' to resolve the websites in Chrome, rather than search results?

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Re:I bought netflix.soy by runawaybottle on Monday May 25, 2020 @11:21PM (#23307104)
Did we just find the secret to beating google?
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by CydeWeys on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:56PM (#23305368)
ICANN doesn't allow A records on the DNS root on gTLDs. If they did, we already would've.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by computerfriend on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:00AM (#23307574)
This explains so much. I'd always wondered why e.g. CERN's website was served from home.cern instead of just cern.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by moonchild on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:15PM (#23305513)
http://cm./ used to resolve
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by Macha on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:50PM (#23305723)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974111

http://to./ used to be a URL shortener.

Either the rules on ccTLDs are different, or it's a recentish crackdown.

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Re:I bought netflix.soy by sleevi on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:20PM (#23305912)
There are no rules for ccTLDs, which their countries like to claim as sovereign property (see https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/wed-ccnso-me... and https://gac.icann.org/principles-and-guidelines/public/princ... for some of the views)

Some ccTLDS voluntarily agree to abide by the same rules and operational requirements as the gTLDs - https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/cctld-2012-02-25-en has more details.

This means, for example, than ccTLDs aren’t bound by the findings from SAC053 at https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-053-en.pdf which have been included in the gTLD contracts.

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Re:I bought netflix.soy by vpzom on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:48PM (#23306072)
Wow, that's a glimpse into the past
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by CydeWeys on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:11PM (#23305850)
.cm is a ccTLD, not a gTLD. All two-letter TLDs are ccTLDs and all 3+ letter TLDs are gTLDs. Countries have wide latitude to do whatever they want with their ccTLDs.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by odensc on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:11PM (#23306492)
http://ai./ still works
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by hnick on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:16AM (#23307979)
What happens if I have a computer on my network named ai? Wouldn't it cause a conflict?

I called my FreeNAS box freenas because I didn't feel very creative, and I can browse to it as http://freenas or http://freenas./ but if they took a domain of 'freenas' suddenly that means I have to do extra work and rename my stuff. Doesn't seem fair!

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Re:I bought netflix.soy by jtvjan on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:55AM (#23309090)
You should have used a reserved TLD like `.local'. If you set it as the local domain name `ai' and `ai.local' would work. `ai.' would not work, as the dot at the end tells it to look at the top level. (like the slash at the beginning of an absolute path)
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by hnick on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:33AM (#23309343)
Ah yes I forgot that, .local does work so I guess that fixes that problem.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by captn3m0 on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:49PM (#23305328)
The used to have an A record on some of the other TLDs they own.

I maintain a list at captnemo.in/tld-a-record

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Re:I bought netflix.soy by CydeWeys on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:14PM (#23305869)
Do you remember the details?
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by captn3m0 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @05:18AM (#23321052)
Yes, I did a blog post when it happened: https://captnemo.in/blog/2018/06/02/google-tld-no-more-a-rec....

Google was pointing its TLDs to 127.0.0.53, and once they started using the TLDs actively, they removed the records.

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Re:I bought netflix.soy by ngold on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:58PM (#23304907)
With the super shady sale of .org it may be time to consider who these people are selling essentially nothing.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by ramzis on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:10AM (#23309188)
I was pondering about the idea of a browser extension for a sort of local DNS. Paying for domains could be ditched if everyone had a local copy of a database that mapped any character sequence (even emojis) to a server address that would get filled in by the extension in the url bar. Not sure if it would extend to mobile or all websites, but could work similar to a social network in the sense that you need to get the extension (i.e. access) first, and then you can find someone just by using a string that they've provided. Combined with something like Github pages it would offer a full free solution.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by pastage on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:25AM (#23438154)
Seems like the hosts files of old and one kind of Alternative root. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by p4bl0 on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:01PM (#23304946)
I remember seeing a NIC that did this with their TLD. But I can't remember which one :/. I would love if someone finds it.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by adamtulinius on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:15PM (#23305061)
I think it's pretty common. Our national NIC does it: http://dk redirects to their website.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by snowl on Monday May 25, 2020 @11:14PM (#23307074)
Surprisingly, going to http://dk redirects to https://www.penguin.com.au/browse/dk for me. How strange (I've never visited the penguin website before this).
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by nerdponx on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:08PM (#23306185)
This redirected to https://dk.com for me. Is this my ISP's DNS messing with me?
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by jedieaston on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:41PM (#23306341)
Firefox will sometimes append .com onto the URL.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by nerdponx on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:11PM (#23325436)
What a nasty non-feature. Can this be disabled?
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by sumedh on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:36PM (#23306006)
Does not load for me

"dk’s server IP address could not be found."

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Re:I bought netflix.soy by citrusui on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:14PM (#23306212)
Another one is http://ai

Perhaps that will work.

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Re:I bought netflix.soy by jdminhbg on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:27PM (#23306280)
This works if you add the trailing .: http://ai.
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Re:I bought netflix.soy by hoppla on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:58PM (#23304911)
DNS suffix, to name one.
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