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by maallooc 2272 days ago
Wow. That’s textbook bad engineering. Could’ve done guid.nonexistanttld but they just had to do guid.com!
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RL_Quine 2272 days ago
Well, history has shown that you can't expect a non existing TLD to keep not existing. The design industry got burned using .xxx as a placeholder in designs, when that suddenly started resolving people's placeholders all linked to porn.
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contravariant 2272 days ago
The TLD 'invalid' is guaranteed to remain, well, invalid.
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