> solidus

Ooooh, very nice. A welcome addition to my anti-personnel vocabularly. Let me put it right next to the tittle and somewhat more pedestrian compartmentalization.

The point is not that "backslash" sounds unrefined. "Backslash" is fine when you're referring to a backslash (reverse solidus). What's not fine is saying backslash when you are in fact referring to a plain ol' slash (solidus), as in URLs.

People who refer to domain "extensions" share something in common with people who misapply the term "backslash". Nerdy enough to have heard of (file name) "extensions" and "backslashes", not nerdy enough to care whether the term is actually appropriate for what they're trying to refer to in the present. TLDs are not "extensions".

The occasional domain registrar that refers to them this way in marketing copy make me wince the hardest. They don't have the excuse of co-opting technically incorrect but extremely popular misnomers. It's more like, if anything, they're most likely to be the cause of people using the wrong term, if ever it were to become a trend.

I share your sentiments entirely. I would like to unhelpfully add that some TLDs, like .com, .org, and even .rs are also file extensions (at least when considered as strings).

I had to double check it. Backslash is called “reverse solidus” in unicode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash

Thanks, I didn't notice the different between "extensions" vs "LTDs". I'll update it

I used namemesh.com sometimes, it's gone offline for some time as well

("TLD", not "LTD"; there's a few instances on your front page.)

Thanks heaps. Pushed the fix