From the blogging archives but still depressingly relevant:
"IANA Insanity – or, how I learned to stop .worrying and .love the .new .internet"
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/07/iana-insanity-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-new-internet/
> In The Beginning there was the .com and the .org and the .net and it was good. And, I mean, there were probably a few others - but that's all people cared about. And THE LORD sayeth "Hey, do people want country codes?Like .UK, .FR, .DE?" And the people were [...]
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2023-07-27 05:55:33
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