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        5 hours ago

        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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              4 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)