OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today 5 days ago
“Well actually…” I understand that some of the large companies are leveraging it to ease filtering for customers. No one wants to block all .com, but you can opt to unblock/block all of .microsoft or .google, that would be useful.
Third or fourth hand information, so I don’t know how far along any of these companies in implementing, but… It kinda feels like they’re trying to build a centralized version a la CompuServe or Prodigy or even AOL over the internet that a company can choose to connect to.
Deebster@programming.dev 5 days ago
You can block *.google.com as easily as *.google, so I don’t think that makes much sense.
OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today 4 days ago
It’s so that you can approve .Google and only .Google .
Deebster@programming.dev 4 days ago
Equally, you can only allow *.google.com as easily as *.google, so I still don’t think that makes much sense.
OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Google.com and YouTube.com and goo.gl. OneDrive.com and office.com and PowerPoint.com. It’s because as every company’s footprint expands they’ve proliferated domains and they’re not all subdomains of the obvious ones.
I wonder if it also overall lowers their costs, as they no longer have to pay for hundreds of .com registrations.