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jcfrei on Nov 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence

I agree it's a strange TLD. But it's the other way around: A given TLD doesn't necessarily have to point to a web server/website at all - any kind of service could resolve this host name.

saeguaiga on Nov 11, 2014 [–]

Thus the '80s .darkweb, .free, .proxy, .milquetoast .ftp3 and .test, like .ipv6eternal, did not take, as properties for future rentiers. The idea of Conway with variable local neighborhoods died hard about as fast, with a small revival when it could be done on GPU. .cytokine anyone?

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