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fragmede 19 hours ago

Even .horse?

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walrus01 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Take a look at the list of new generic TLDs that are run by Donuts LLC now Identity Digital, a US based company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Digital

	▲	card_zero 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But that list does not include .horse, which is on another list as operated by Minds + Machines, "a British Virgin Islands-based company". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English-language_gener... I suppose they're in California really, but perhaps not for legal purposes. Likewise Uniregistry (.lol) "was registered in the Cayman Islands", for what good that does.

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inigyou 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, .horse is a USA TLD. It works this way because we let the USA have the exorbitant privilege of controlling the DNS root, and they realized they could make up new TLDs for money.