[itake]

9k stars and 5yrs old: https://github.com/harelba/q

Why not call it like dnsq or dq like jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) did?

[rytill]

You can’t just claim a letter and expect no one else to ever make a thing that is named that letter. Except C.

[itake]

From a trademark perspective, that is exactly how it works: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/laws/dates-use-1

From a "I can only have one cli alias to q" perspective, then I am sticking with SQL "q" cmd, b/c its more useful and I have been using it longer than this one.

[WhyNotHugo]

I use a lot of single-letter aliases, so I'd really prefer applications avoid using single-letter names, and reverse that specifically for user-local aliases.

[stormbrew]

There's already a thing called `dnsq`, it's part of the djbdns suite (along with dnsqr for recursive queries).

I actually miss it, now that pretty much all of djb's tools have fallen out of both fashion and maintenance, it was a much better -- and simpler -- tool than dig or nslookup.