[Sophira]

There are three TLDs I block on my computer completely, and all of them are file extensions - .zip, .md, and .mov.

(Yes, the domain "readme.md" exists. Fortunately, whoever owns it is not using their power for evil and does not have any webserver there... but I'm not risking it.)

[NewJazz]

.md seems overzealous, no? Do you also block .rs? Would break too much I imagine.

[dokyun]

What do you have against Moldova?

[NewJazz]

They're unlucky, no EU for you.

[IneffablePigeon]

I am SO tired of the Claude docs site getting a rich preview every time anyone mentions “claude.md”. At least it’s registered by Anthropic, but what a terrible decision to allow these TLDs.

[Sophira]

To be fair, .md is the ccTLD for Moldova, first set up in 1994[0], ten years before Markdown was even a thing. The ccTLDs use the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, defined in 1974 (according to Wikipedia)[1].

Moldova has every right to the ccTLD. It's just that I find that Markdown files can sometimes get auto-linked to the corresponding (and frequently non-existent) domain, which could catch me out if I'm unaware... and I don't even know of any sites using that ccTLD, hence why I block it.

Nothing personal, Moldova.

(.zip and .mov were terrible ideas, though.)

[0] https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/md.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2