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by jlgaddis 2029 days ago
There was a time when we all passed the hosts file around.

That became unworkable about three and a half decades or so ago, however, and the DNS was created to solve that problem.
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vaccinator 2029 days ago
It can't be more then a gigabyte... I guess DNS was ahead of its time when it comes to clouds... but clouds are killing the internet as we used to know it
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jodrellblank 2029 days ago
"According to the latest data from Verisign, there were 359.8 million registered domain names at the close of 2019’s third quarter." - https://makeawebsitehub.com/how-many-domains-are-there/

Assume each zonefile is 1Kb that could be 350GB of data, right?

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