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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by Geezus_42 on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:44AM (#44096457)
How is it different from real estate which people have been hoarding without using for centuries?
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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by thrance on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:50AM (#44096495)
Land hoarding should be illegal too. But it's especially egregious when it comes to domain names, as you're paying fortunes to rent imaginary strings of characters, made scarce for absolutely no reason since we have an infinite supply of them.
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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by vntok on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:59AM (#44096585)
We don't have an infinite supply of the abc.com domain, there's just the one. That's the whole point of DNS, to provide unicity across the whole network.
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