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TLDs like .google and .microsoft really makes me think about how ridiculously gigantic those companies really are. They're so big they got their own freaking TLD.

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[–] OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

"Well actually..." I understand that some of the large companies are leveraging it to ease filtering for customers. No one wants to block all .com, but you can opt to unblock/block all of .microsoft or .google, that would be useful.

Third or fourth hand information, so I don't know how far along any of these companies in implementing, but... It kinda feels like they're trying to build a centralized version a la CompuServe or Prodigy or even AOL over the internet that a company can choose to connect to.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 12 points 9 hours ago

You can block *.google.com as easily as *.google, so I don't think that makes much sense.