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gammatrigono · 2018-08-23 19:58:12

Misread "TLD" as "domain." Whoops.

tome | karma 8885 | avg karma 1.75 · | 2016-05-20 13:30:33+00:00

Wait, did you really mean "TLD", or just "domain"?

jwilk | karma 8094 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2018-08-23 07:31:40+00:00

Rookie mistake. They wanted just a domain, but accidentally the whole TLD.

ummonk | karma 11811 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2018-08-23 06:54:32+00:00

You meant domain name, not TLD, right?

Sindisil | karma 1927 | avg karma 5.67 · | 2016-05-01 15:08:18+00:00

Oops, meant to reply to the sibling comment confusing the TLAs with web domain definitions.

thiht | karma 3603 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2023-07-23 12:11:49

You’re confusing TLDs and domain names.

bombcar | karma 42761 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2022-08-15 09:38:36

What TLD was the domain on?

konschubert | karma 7289 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2018-08-23 07:14:32+00:00

I think you mean domain, not tld.

Tld is the last part of the domain, the .com, .eu, .in, ...

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ericd | karma 12063 | avg karma 2.38 · | 2010-06-09 04:41:43

Yeah, I saw that. They should have been given .cl or something that's not a common misspelling of the de facto standard TLD.

squeakynick | karma 879 | avg karma 4.55 · | 2012-06-08 14:59:46+00:00

I am the article author.

Thank you to the numerous people who took to time to email me and correct me about a definition. In this article, I refer to the entire root of a domain name e.g. Amazon.com as the TLD. I made a mistake, it is just the .com component of this name that is the TLD. I hope this error didn’t mask the enjoyment of the article for you. I appreciate all the feedback I receive.

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TomMarius | karma 758 | avg karma 0.28 · | 2018-02-19 11:36:26+00:00

I'm not talking about gTLDs. TLD is a term with multiple meanings.

eddd-ddde | karma 790 | avg karma 1.8 · | 2024-05-18 21:23:03

I had no idea TLDs had any form of "semantics".

TIL dot com is apparently a "commercial" site.

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jdc0589 | karma 1476 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2017-05-18 16:17:52+00:00

somehow I missed that AWS had its own TLD now.

GavinMcG | karma 5470 | avg karma 4.01 · | 2021-02-24 14:01:22

Whether something is a TLD isn't equivalent to whether it is a domain. The comment taken literally asked about the latter.

todd8 | karma 6359 | avg karma 3.8 · | 2020-12-03 06:17:55

Notice the domain name. I had no idea that there was such a TLD.

hombre_fatal | karma 18663 | avg karma 3.79 · | 2019-02-16 16:47:20+00:00

That wouldn't make sense since the TLD isn't just for the staging phase of a website. It's for anything.

Avamander | karma 4204 | avg karma 1.56 · | 2022-03-16 08:08:48

You shouldn't check for a specific list of TLD's, you're going to get it wrong.

OJFord | karma 22072 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2019-05-17 18:50:43

Not all TLDs allow that anyway.

smallegan | karma 892 | avg karma 2.65 · | 2013-11-27 14:43:01+00:00

TLD = Too Long Domains?

pwdisswordfish8 | karma 927 | avg karma 3.5 · | 2021-10-04 16:00:01

This article refers to TLDs as domain "extensions" in a few places, which is not really a thing.[1] Please don't make it a thing.

1. Or at least to the extent that it is currently a (small) thing, it's the wrong thing.

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