L'Afnic publie aujourd'hui le bilan 2023 des noms de domaine en .fr. Plus de 40% des noms de domaine en France sont des .fr. Découvrez tous les autres chiffres.
In this episode of #Syntax podcast, I thought this was going to be about warning about securing your domain registrations. Turns out that it is a warning to pick your weird #TLD well, and consider avoiding .af among others.
The #Taliban stole my domain https://overcast.fm/+JaI7wJKLE
The demise of the queer.af domain (that just happened to follow a conversation I had with my wife on the weekend, who wanted a new domain name for a new business she wants to set up) made me write up some thoughts on Domain Names:
Here's your regular reminder that by picking a cutesy name under some #ccTLD you are necessarily relinquishing full control to the ccTLD owner. @violetblue found out about that when Lybia shut down her vb.ly back in... 2010 or so? Now here is @GossiTheDog noting that queer.af was suspended by the Taliban.
Don't register your domains under a repressive regime's #TLD.
Very good news: #ICANN is going to define a new special #TLD "internal" meant for use in internal networks only. This TLD is meant to never be used in the broader #Internet. 👍
I hope #router vendors will now react so that those hacky config #domains like "fritz.box" will be replaced with something that ends with ".internal". Those hacky domains always left a bad taste in my mouth.
It's not 100% official yet but the chances look good.
The .ing and .meme #domains have their sunrise registration phase ending in about 90 minutes and enter general availability. Get 'em while they're hot!
Am 5. November 1986 wurde die Länderkennung .de in der IANA-Datenbank (root-Zone) eingetragen. Damit viel der Startschuss für das Internet in Deutschland. Die Verwaltung wird anfangs in den USA durch den Netzbetreiber CSNET übernommen. 1988 wird die Verwaltung an die Informatikrechner-Betriebsgruppe (IRB) an der Universität Dortmund übertragen, die den Nameserver-Dienst und die Vergabe von IPv4-Adressblöcken übernimmt. Der Dienstleister wird als Network Information Center bezeichnet, kurz NIC. Und da er die Verwaltung von .de übernimmt, ist der Name DENIC geboren. 1993 wurde zunächst der "Interessenverbund Deutsches Network Information Center (IV-DENIC)" gegründet, der die Verwaltung übernahm, bevor 1996 die DENIC-Genossenschaft gegründet wurde, so wie sie heute noch besteht.
Damals waren grad mal 6 Domains registriert, heute sind es fast 18 Millionen, womit .de hinter China die zweitgrößte länderspezifische Top-Level-Domain weltweit ist.
Google has added a new TLD (top level domain), .ing -- act now, you could own the below domain! (Apologies for the use of a four letter word, it was the first thing to come to mind of "ing" words) #TLD#domains
Anyone else think the :Fediverse: #Fediverse taught you a lot of #TLDs you didn't know existed? For instance (pardon the pun), I never knew .bbc, .sucks and .international were TLDs until I came across them in my timeline as Fediverse instances.
I love how people are setting up sites and Fediverse instances with new and emerging TLDs to stand out from the usual .com, .org, .net and others. More sites should have them, especially domain hacks! :MOULE_Happy:
🆕 blog! “False Friends - HTML Elements which are also Top Level Domains”
In linguistics, a "False Friend" is a word which looks similar in multiple languages, but means something different in each of them. For example the word "gift" in English means "a present", in German means "poison", and in Norwegian it means "married". The Internet uses Top Level …
General question about the #fediverse and #mastodon: I see most instances end with some cute #TLD like .social or .city or .town. Is there any reason not to use a domain that is .org or .net or .xyz? Is that like having a aol.com email address or something?