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NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• grandkaiser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A lot of people have uneducated opinions on gtlds, but as a professional DNS engineer: fuck gtlds. They’re literally corporate cash grabs that make my life much, much harder and actively make the Internet worse.

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  • NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks for proving my point lol how do gtlds make your work much, much harder??

    actively worse

    😂😂😂

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    • grandkaiser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      how do gtlds make your work much, much harder??

      Since you’ve shown vague interest in my field, allow me to elaborate!

      gtlds add a ton of complexity to managing DNS. Every new gtld means more configurations to deal with, which makes things way more prone to errors. On top of that, they make monitoring and security tougher since we have to constantly watch for threats from an ever-growing list of domains—more phishing, more typosquatting, more headaches. It’s also a pain when systems don’t play nice with certain gtlds, leading to random bugs or outages we have to troubleshoot. And let’s not forget the user confusion. People are used to .com or .org, so we end up fielding extra support requests, trying to explain what these domains even are which means I have to explain repeatedly to executives to NOT use some gimmicky gtld for their new site. When users are upset because “thewebsiteimanage.hot” is a porn site, thats a huge problem. Defensive domains are a nightmare and get worse every time a new gltd is created.

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      • NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s a lot of hats for one person to wear, no wonder you’re having so much trouble managing your configuration. Sounds like it’d be easier to have a single registry with an open top dot and delegate all that management.

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