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          I never said they were. I just said .d means directory in another context

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            4 hours ago

            Well, a .com is a CP/M binary file introduced in ~1975, whereas the TLD wasn’t introduced until 1985. So, put that in your pipe and smoke it. 😝

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              Yeah that’s weird too. So would a TLD of .txt or .doc or can you imagine a TLD of .html?

              They’re all weird just to various degrees.

              Why would you want .d as a TLD? To me it would just be weird and confusing.

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                3 hours ago

                .a, .b, .c…

                Why are they limiting us? Seems like ICANN has an unfair position.

                Someone should start a competing dns that allows domain registrations with single letter domains.

                That’s kind of how .onion works (for dns)