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Re:Dotless Domains by esperent on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:54PM (#43950930)
the first shalt not be an integer

I recently came across the 3.ie domain so I guess that's more of a guideline than rule.

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Re:Dotless Domains by AStonesThrow on Sunday May 11, 2025 @12:38AM (#43951423)
I believe that the rule has been deprecated due to better parsing.

In the mid-90s, 3M was a customer of the ISP I worked for. Unable to procure the domain name “3m.com” they settled for the alternate “mmm.com”: mildly hilarious considering their lines of business.

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Re:Dotless Domains by leslielurker on Monday May 12, 2025 @04:27AM (#43960773)
Funny to see mmm.com still works, but it loads up the 3M site without its stylesheet and shows a 404 page. I guess the redirect has been forgotten about at some point.
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