Yes, but why? :)

FUN! And who knows, maybe this will lead to something later. Many discoveries or inventions were built on things people didn’t know the use of at the time.

	▲	rvz 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly.

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boznz 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Question can also be interpreted as "why does DNS even allow this" which is fair as it only purpose should be to convert a domain name address into a 32 bit number. The answer is partially in the link on TFA. I guess they had their reasons.

	▲	pixl97 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I mean DNS has had different record types for as long as I can remember, txt records in specific allowed the protocol to be extensible without everyone having to update their software to support new record types. And that also leaves out the common things like MX records.

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HeckFeck 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because I want my DKIM signatures to be literal signatures.

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rvz 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why not? This is exactly what hackers and tinkerers do.

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CaptainOfCoit 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Better question: Why not? :)