Can a moron get some context? I don't know much about internet or TLD... I'd ask AI but I want the right answer lol.
Showerthoughts
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
"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.
You can block *.google.com as easily as *.google, so I don't think that makes much sense.
Nah. It’s more ridiculous that ICANN gives out domains other than stuff like edu/com/org/gov in the first place.
Apple and some other companies own entire /8 blocks of IPv4 addresses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks
Anyone with $150K to blow can have a vanity TLD it's not that big a feat. And it's about as fought douchy as vanity plates.
.assman
Lots of companies have TLD's. It's mostly a reflection of starting early, before TLD camping became a business model.
.bbc also exists, their fediverse instance is social.bbc
A TLD dedicated to Big Black Cock? What will they think of next?
I think you're thinking of D's, not TLD's.
Yeah, D's NUTS!
Terrifyingly Large Dongs
