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Another junk website?
The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk.
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Another junk website?
On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 01:16:11 +0100, ? Good Guy ?
wrote: On 26/08/2018 23:41, Peter Jason wrote: The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk. So what do you want us to do about them? Why are you habitually posting crap here? are you some mad Aussie crying about your country's political system? Mind boggles that they keep changing their PMs like people changing their computers. * sniff * I am trying to assist others here. They can add that string to their kill files in Outlook. I suspect your political leaders change as often as your underware! |
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Peter Jason wrote:
The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk. There's metric ****-tonne of 'new' gTLDs ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#ICANN-era_generic_top-level_domains |
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Another junk website?
On 26 Aug 2018, Peter Jason wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10: The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk. That is a top-level domain designation, not a domain. There are many domains with that extension, not just one. Their various contents could include anything, not just "ads & junk". |
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Nil wrote:
On 26 Aug 2018, Peter Jason wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10: The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk. That is a top-level domain designation, not a domain. There are many domains with that extension, not just one. Their various contents could include anything, not just "ads & junk". This article will put you off to sleep on the topic of TLDs, but I did like them naming the worst one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain "In 2018, Spamhaus rated .men as the worst top-level domain in terms of spam and scamming. .men comes top with 60.6 per cent of its 73,000 domains identified as "bad", resulting in a badness index of 6.48. The company that runs .men, Famous Four Media also runs the third worst registry - .loan – with 59 per cent bad domains and a 6.22 index. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System "For example, the domain name www.example.com translates to the addresses 93.184.216.34 (IPv4)" I copied those two, to show the difference between a TLD and a "domain name". I wasn't really aware of how dangerously similar the terminology is. The diagram in the DNS article, shows some of the steps. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...S_resolver.svg An organization can run their own nameserver. For example, Wikipedia can have a wikipedia.org nameserver, and if a query like "cucumber.wikipedia.org" came in, it could be that nameserver which answers the query. And names like that, also allow an IP number to be shared www.wikipedia.org 22.33.44.55 cucumber.wikipedia.org 22.33.44.55 A server on 22.33.44.55 can look at the symbolic name and figure out what "service" the user was looking for. If I do this http://22.33.44.55 I wouldn't get a reasonable answer. Whereas if I do this http://cucumber.wikipedia.org then equipment in the Wikipedia building can figure out which server I want ("cucumber"), even though the same numeric IP address happens to be associated with it. And I only continue getting reasonable answers, as long as I use symbolic addresses. http://cucumber.wikipedia.org/index.htm I only wanted to mention that, so people could understand where "brokenness" comes from sometimes. It's not always "Internet equipment" which is broken, and the broke part can be inside a business. Paul |
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:26:32 -0400, Nil
wrote: On 26 Aug 2018, Peter Jason wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10: The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk. That is a top-level domain designation, not a domain. There are many domains with that extension, not just one. Their various contents could include anything, not just "ads & junk". All the ones I'm getting are exclusively junk. I keep my eye on them though. |
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 06:54:06 -0400, Paul wrote:
Nil wrote: On 26 Aug 2018, Peter Jason wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10: The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk. That is a top-level domain designation, not a domain. There are many domains with that extension, not just one. Their various contents could include anything, not just "ads & junk". This article will put you off to sleep on the topic of TLDs, but I did like them naming the worst one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain "In 2018, Spamhaus rated .men as the worst top-level domain in terms of spam and scamming. .men comes top with 60.6 per cent of its 73,000 domains identified as "bad", resulting in a badness index of 6.48. The company that runs .men, Famous Four Media also runs the third worst registry - .loan – with 59 per cent bad domains and a 6.22 index. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System "For example, the domain name www.example.com translates to the addresses 93.184.216.34 (IPv4)" I copied those two, to show the difference between a TLD and a "domain name". I wasn't really aware of how dangerously similar the terminology is. The diagram in the DNS article, shows some of the steps. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...S_resolver.svg An organization can run their own nameserver. For example, Wikipedia can have a wikipedia.org nameserver, and if a query like "cucumber.wikipedia.org" came in, it could be that nameserver which answers the query. And names like that, also allow an IP number to be shared www.wikipedia.org 22.33.44.55 cucumber.wikipedia.org 22.33.44.55 A server on 22.33.44.55 can look at the symbolic name and figure out what "service" the user was looking for. If I do this http://22.33.44.55 I wouldn't get a reasonable answer. Whereas if I do this http://cucumber.wikipedia.org then equipment in the Wikipedia building can figure out which server I want ("cucumber"), even though the same numeric IP address happens to be associated with it. And I only continue getting reasonable answers, as long as I use symbolic addresses. http://cucumber.wikipedia.org/index.htm I only wanted to mention that, so people could understand where "brokenness" comes from sometimes. It's not always "Internet equipment" which is broken, and the broke part can be inside a business. FYI, there's nothing broken about your example above. All of that is intentional and working as it was designed. The days of being limited to one site per IP address ended nearly 30 years ago. Also, you can access any site by its IP address, even sites using the shared hosting model, if you insert the proper headers so that the destination server can determine which site you're looking for, but web browsers won't do that for you automatically, so it's easier to use the name versus the IP. By using a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) as the destination, your browser will know how to create and insert the headers referred to above. Bottom line, it's those headers that do the magic, not the fact that you requested a site by its FQDN. The destination site doesn't see what you typed into your browser. |
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Another junk website?
On 09/23/2018 08:47 AM, Char Jackson wrote:
[snip] FYI, there's nothing broken about your example above. All of that is intentional and working as it was designed. The days of being limited to one site per IP address ended nearly 30 years ago. Also, you can access any site by its IP address, even sites using the shared hosting model, if you insert the proper headers so that the destination server can determine which site you're looking for, The Host header is what specifies the domain. MSIE has been inserting the Host header since version 3. [snip] -- 93 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "It's called religion. It's when you believe something that nobody in his right mind would believe." -- Archie Bunker |
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 09:47:22 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 09/23/2018 08:47 AM, Char Jackson wrote: [snip] FYI, there's nothing broken about your example above. All of that is intentional and working as it was designed. The days of being limited to one site per IP address ended nearly 30 years ago. Also, you can access any site by its IP address, even sites using the shared hosting model, if you insert the proper headers so that the destination server can determine which site you're looking for, The Host header is what specifies the domain. MSIE has been inserting the Host header since version 3. [snip] Exactly. |
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