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RBR850 issued 705k DNS queries in 7 days from Netgear specific domains
I recently subscribed to and setup NextDNS service to replace my two Ethernet-wired Pi-Hole Servers that can no longer successfully resolve DNS on my Netgear Orbi RBR850 network. In my NextDNS Pr...
I was really surprised to see the internet domain ".co" At first, I thought, "silly typo". But... WAIT... how was I not aware that it has become fashionable to use ".co" (the domain abbreviation for Columbia) as shorthand for all sorts of things. This Community Forum provides something new almost every day!
".co" (the domain abbreviation for Columbia)
.co was relaunched back in 2010, as an alternative for .com There are a lot of .net and .com URLs, all managed by the same registar (Verisign).
There are financial and policy aspects to this stuff, since registars receive revenue for the URLs, and it is important to have a global base of registrars.
There were a lot of gTLDs opened up in that timeframe, but most really didn't gain much traction.