I sometimes wonder, since gtlds are not permanent fixtures (they are sort of subscription payments to ICANN), and a lot of people are seemingly removing their delegations now, presumably to save money, are we going to hit the point where URLify function is not gonna have any idea what is currently a fully qualified host name and what is currently not? Will anything remember the fact that comcast was once a TLD?
edward@social.sphero..
replied 07 Feb 2024 12:35 +0000
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@benjojo how many organisations make any real use of their .brand TLDs? The only one that I can recall seeing in the wild is .ntt. ICANN made a load of money selling shovels in a gold rush.
benjojo
replied 07 Feb 2024 12:53 +0000
in reply to: https://social.spheron.one/users/edward/statuses/111890223416729238
@edward oh I think it's pretty abysmal. I know NTT uses their gTLD (But at least I know from anecdotal data that their employee's still use their older emails rather than the gTLD one) (I wrote a bit about this in 2018 when Sony let go of a couple of their gTLD's)[https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/the-death-of-a-tld] and it seems that sometimes it's used for email, but not much else. In the case of comcast, they had: . nic.comcast and that is basically it...
. whois.nic.comcast
unlobito@woof.tech
replied 08 Feb 2024 00:24 +0000
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@benjojo @edward I think a lot about Barclays’ status page for retail banking- https://status.uk.barclays/
cynthia@blahaj.socia..
replied 08 Feb 2024 00:56 +0000
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drscriptt@oldbytes.s..
replied 07 Feb 2024 14:04 +0000
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@benjojo it’s relatively easy to get a copy of the root DNS zone. When will things (other than DNS servers) use this as priming data?
benjojo
replied 07 Feb 2024 15:18 +0000
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@drscriptt But regexs are easy :), To be fair, the safer (and easier than zone file parsing) is to just test if the suspected DNS name actually resolves or not, before "URLifying" it. That being said, that does carry risks such as described in this iTerm2 bug report https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/6050
drscriptt@oldbytes.s..
replied 08 Feb 2024 00:31 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/22Qh86gCwyL193r9k1
@benjojo I hear you but I raise you named-compilezone et al. That produces simple line oriented <record owner name> <record data> that is very safe to pass through awk et al. to get the first column that is the TLDs in the root zone. And I think about people parsing (read: deserializing) XML, YAML, and JSON, all of which are more complex to parse than tabular data. 😉