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Remnant of a time when the Internet was new and geeks would buy all kind of fun domains with odd TLDs.
by Fnoord 3y ago
Remnant of a time when the Internet was new and geeks would buy all kind of fun domains with odd TLDs.
- bdcravens 3y ago"new"? I don't remember seeing many of the "odd TLDs" for sale until the web had been around 10-15 years.
- Fnoord 3y agoNot the TLDs themselves the creative use of them. I started on the Internet in the (mid) 90s. Back then, it was already common among security conscious folks. A bit later, end 90s, you could buy a shell account for a couple of USD per month. You could run a BNC on it, or IRC client. It had various IPv4 with reverse DNS, this was called vhost. For example, you could end up with I.pwned.the.whole.eu.org and plays where TLD was part of word. Goatse.cx for example reads 'goatsex', Slashdot.org reads 'slashdotdotorg' or 'httpcolonslashslashslashdotdotorg', the founder of first Dutch consumer ISP Xs4all Rop Gonggrijp had gonggri.jp for ages (guess his email address). There are countless of examples.