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Re:A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular w... by oneeyedpigeon on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @02:25PM (#6810447)
It's almost as if there's a need for a top-level domain to distinguish between commercial organisations and non-profits. This [1] was working brilliantly until everyone decided to abuse it left, right, and center.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com

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Re:A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular w... by Laremere on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @03:06PM (#6810756)
The worst common day offender being .io.
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Re:A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular w... by nwh on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @07:37PM (#6812310)
.io is a generic TLD in most books now anyway. There's lots of other ccTLD that are fairly useless, though it's obvious why ones like .co.ck (the uninhabited Cook Islands) were never picked up as generics.
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