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------- Original Message ------- On Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 at 11:29 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Whatever you come up with for <your initials>, ICANN can add to the > > gTLD namespace; see https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD. > > > The DNS queries for fii.xy (a typo) will escape your homenet when you > meant to type foo.xy (the target). Hadn't thought of that, but a shortcut name in the hosts file fixes it all. For example: One of my computers is called gobook3 (makes sense to me). In hosts, it's shortcut is 'gb'. 'ping gb' does what's expected. 'ping gv' says 'ping: gv: Name or service not known'. And I've had no reason to rattle ICANN's cage(s) -- it's all local. /etc/hosts has worked just fine for me since I became aware of IP and put up a little Internet domain (I disabled it a few years ago when my brain hit 75 years old and the ISP raised their rates). -- Glenn English -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: ProtonMail wsBzBAEBCAAnBYJlNpbgCZCf14YxgqyMMhYhBCyicw9CUnAlY0ANl5/XhjGC rIwyAABxJgf/TiRVNvnU6+/TWEslmJQdit8GwdWRVDt2Qt4COngONjquR1jW 4Z+N55do+UwwPsHPkmZDaSE2yWkVwhfi1Yvr+ET2P8bUHgishQ6WevV2rOhB 2guatFVXb7B/DbYIfAU+/YAJPOwoNCLB95kH/Z0yh0gXjpZHl0eMeXWg+T9M VoGlJQlc1YoWHBVUPqx+eowTAnuW0FhWP3aO9t1lj+AkuJiQpvv2Othhwkok vzX2oSIUUGxSegaeHQ+l2OzB4Sv8FKtn1JWOQvYW8Vzm33N6XiBjS8IAWdfx UJUBjZH6UZiJoNosKxdlwfrSqoR0DwCgBb1Eilboy7XSzp8r/m47dA== =Ly3y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
