[ChrisArchitect]

Interesting of course, but also a 6 month trial so whatever that means for commitment who knows.

Couple questions:

There's a .bbc TLD? Being used anywhere else? TIL

Who is hosting their instance - is it a third-party or did they spin up their own?

[Shrezzing]

There was a FoI request on the list of .bbc domains last year. As of Feb 2022, they ran

alpha.bbc, labs.bbc, nic.bbc, taster.bbc, the.bbc, to.bbc. nic.bbc is the only one that resolves, I'd asusme the rest are for internal R&D projects and QA links.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/820849/response/19688...

[JdeBP]

Since one of the newly awakened accounts is @[e-mail], we can be fairly sure what taster.bbc is for.

[riffic]

delegated to the root zone in 2015:

https://icannwiki.org/.bbc

[OJFord]

Didn't know that either, they should use it for link shortening on the ..apex(? Root?) like bbc/deadbeef! Think they currently use bbc.news.

I suppose a lot of people (also parsers) wouldn't realise it was a URL.