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This is an anecdotal story from a Daring Fireball reader, but the claim is it was initially to help locate servers? http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/09
by jasonmp85 10y ago
This is an anecdotal story from a Daring Fireball reader, but the claim is it was initially to help locate servers?
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/09/hp-license-plate-domains http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/09/hp-license-plate...
- 0x0 10y agoThat doesn't even make sense. What happens if a server goes down and needs to be replaced? Do you have to wait for someone to remove the old box and insert a new box in the rack? Obviously there needs to be a handoff of the same name because everyone in the world is linking to the "license-plate" URL....