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Fuck Microsoft (fuck.microsoft)
20 points by rscafi 4017 days ago
3 comments
kijeda 4017 days ago 

  $ dig +short fuck.microsoft
  127.0.53.53
  $
It is part of the ICANN-mandated "controlled interruption" phase of launching a new TLD before production usage. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-collision-2013-12...
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plausibility 4016 days ago 

    $ dig +short foo.meme
    127.0.53.53
    $
It's the same for .meme, which is owned by Google if I'm not mistaken.
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rscafi 4017 days ago
So, Microsoft registrated some top level domains, like MICROSOFT, XBOX, WINDOWS, AZURE, BING and HOTMAIL, as we can see here: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-string...

But they didn't add any content yet. So, just a joke showing "Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page".

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_kst_ 4017 days ago
No, the name resolves to a local address, so you're seeing the default page for the machine your browser is running on.
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kijeda 4017 days ago
The Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page is presumably on your localhost?
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jessaustin 4009 days ago
Haha might want to turn that off...
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Grue3 4016 days ago
Jesus, why do they need Bing and especially Hotmail TLDs? Bing is hardly used by anyone and I thought Hotmail was retired in favor of outlook.com.
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Zekio 4017 days ago
would be pretty awesome if they made it so if you have an xbox live account you get Username.xbox for your xbox profile page or something

BTW http://nic.microsoft/ Edit: You can use nic infront of pretty much all of microsofts ones

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