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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by Sophira on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:05PM (#48726964)
There are three TLDs I block on my computer completely, and all of them are file extensions - .zip, .md, and .mov.

(Yes, the domain "readme.md" exists. Fortunately, whoever owns it is not using their power for evil and does not have any webserver there... but I'm not risking it.)

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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by NewJazz on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:16PM (#48727459)
.md seems overzealous, no? Do you also block .rs? Would break too much I imagine.
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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by dokyun on Monday June 29, 2026 @10:39PM (#48727948)
What do you have against Moldova?
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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by NewJazz on Monday June 29, 2026 @11:15PM (#48728112)
They're unlucky, no EU for you.
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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by IneffablePigeon on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:56AM (#48729718)
I am SO tired of the Claude docs site getting a rich preview every time anyone mentions “claude.md”. At least it’s registered by Anthropic, but what a terrible decision to allow these TLDs.
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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by Sophira on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @05:42AM (#48744368)
To be fair, .md is the ccTLD for Moldova, first set up in 1994[0], ten years before Markdown was even a thing. The ccTLDs use the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, defined in 1974 (according to Wikipedia)[1].

Moldova has every right to the ccTLD. It's just that I find that Markdown files can sometimes get auto-linked to the corresponding (and frequently non-existent) domain, which could catch me out if I'm unaware... and I don't even know of any sites using that ccTLD, hence why I block it.

Nothing personal, Moldova.

(.zip and .mov were terrible ideas, though.)

[0] https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/md.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

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