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2021-04-12, 22:31

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Originally Posted by Frank777 View Post
Why is this a thing? Who asked for this?
Why? Because we are running out of .com domains perhaps? Or domain server companies want to suck more money from big corporations? Make tons of domains types, so they have to register them all to protect that brand? Who knows? There are a lot of similarly named small businesses out there, so a conflict could easily arise. If you own and run a computer store a '.computer' address might be your only choice if .com is already taken. There are hundreds of domains now beyond the simple .com, gov, .ca, .uk etc. Never been to one of them, but you can register them.
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