Comment on Lemmy instances die twice
scytale@lemm.ee 6 months agoI don’t understand how they didn’t use .btw instead of .fyi for that instance.
Comment on Lemmy instances die twice
scytale@lemm.ee 6 months agoI don’t understand how they didn’t use .btw instead of .fyi for that instance.
n2burns@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
No sure if this is a serious question, but .btw is not a TLD while .fyi is.
TypicalHog@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I don’t know how TLDs work, but I think it’s dumb the fact you can’t use any combo of chars.
Forester@yiffit.net 6 months ago
You can if you want to support the hosting of the requisite infrastructure
WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
The TLD TL;DR is basically that domains don’t come out of nowhere. Just like how you need a lemmy.zip domain to be able to have the subdomains next.lemmy.zip or old.lemmy.zip, in order to have the domain lemmy.zip you must first have someone to run the .zip top-level domain (in this case, Google)
Like Forester mentioned in the other comment, you can have any combination of letters you want as a TLD, you just have to set up and manage all the infra for it (or find somebody else to do it for you)