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altairprime 3 days ago

For those first discovering the PSL, a brief review.

There are ~90 prior comments concentrated mostly in two prior submissions from 2016 and 2021 so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=publicsuffix.org

This is the top comment on the 2021 discussion:

> Before you begin to make use of the PSL, consider some of its problems: https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems

There are another couple dozen comments on a few submissions of that: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/sleevi

HN frequently suggests that DNS should be used to solve this; sleevi replied a few years back with:

> This has been a common suggestion since before the Publix Suffix List existed, as you can see from the linked issues in the text (and the references to the IETF DBOUND WG). Like most things, on first glance, it seems like it does make sense. Except it has a lot of issues, which you can see have been discussed for 15 years without resolution, even though yes, it would scale better.

trympet 3 days ago | parent [-]

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