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Sex.com: A URL – All Crime and No Sex (2006)

1 points by nadermx 3y ago

mattl 3y ago
Sex.com isn’t a URL though. It’s a domain name.
- nadermx 3y ago
  I think technically speaking a URL is correct as well, "A Uniform Resource Locator, colloquially termed a web address" per Wikipedia.
  - mattl 3y ago
    You’d need http:// http:// or something to be a URL. Yeah you could put a domain name into a browser and it’ll transform it into a URL but no guarantee there’s a website there of course.
    - nadermx 3y ago
      You're probably right. But was the title of the article.
      - mattl 3y ago
        Oh yeah, and it’s a good article.
NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
My boss once registered sex.com, or perhaps sex.org, around 1994. He was absolutely jubilant about it. He became a venture capitalist, or angel investor, so this early domain name speculation was right up his alley. He had no sex-related content, or interest in it. I can't remember if it was before or after, that he inspired me to register my own personal domain. It was so easy, and so free, in those days. The trick was hanging onto them as registrars arose, and changed hands, and after the Bubble...