2015-04-21

New TLDs

The whole thing with the new TLDs (Top Level Domains) is quite fun - so many new domains means some fun host names.

I have to be careful and not use my outdated knowledge of how things work to say "that is wrong", so when someone had and issue today and I saw their VoIP registration was to a host called "telephone.exchange" I had to take a step back and double check that...

Yes, that is a real host name :-

;; ANSWER SECTION:
telephone.exchange. 2973 IN A 81.2.101.128
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