I really like @xor's Python script for generating domain names from public domain books, so I turned it, with permission, into a website, to make it easier to use.
It's week 07 of my #SysAdmin class, high time we talk about the cause of (and solution to) all problems: the #DNS.
We look at the history of the DNS and how we used to copy giant hosts file around, trace DNS packets from resolvers to the root servers and the various authoritative NS using our good friend #tcpdump, talk about #TLDs, fetch the root zone from InterNIC to bootstrap our resolver, look at different RRs, reverse lookups, and touch upon #dnssec.
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:
Really not a fan of all the new vanity #TLDs that #ICANN has decided to start selling.
It's such an un-asked-for "feature" that it doesn't take much squinting to look like straight-up corruption. Apparently, someone must have decided there was money to be made… and now every giant corporation (or a sleazier squatter) can have its own TLD.
Especially galling since IANA/ICANN refuses to set-aside TLDs for internal use, despite decades of recommendations: