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vekntksijdhric • yesterday at 4:00 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

This is a security issue for many devices. What could possibly go wrong overriding a tld used for internal networking....


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dwedge • yesterday at 9:30 PM

This being on the front page at the same time as the coffee machine sending 1TB of data, and the icann application being submitted by Coffee Danger LLC is just beautiful

jeroenhd • yesterday at 4:07 PM

You would hope someone would finally learn after .dev and .local started getting used.

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jstarks • yesterday at 4:03 PM

What could go wrong using tlds that were not explicitly reserved for internal use?

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davidcollantes • yesterday at 4:07 PM

Indeed. It akin to an application for a .local TLD.

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seanw444 • yesterday at 4:02 PM

This was my first thought as well. Yikes.