Comments on: It grows in bunches

It grows in bunches

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:57:33 -0800

The Internet alphabetically: First --- Last

By: Urban Hermit

Urban Hermit — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:10:15 -0800

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the DNS...

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:10:43 -0800

certainly interesting, but I feel bad about what we are going to do to the bandwidth of the "ZIMBABWE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE AND NETWORK"... my guess is they aren't exactly on a huge budget! I know if my non-profit got linked in MeFi it would be a budget issue for us! Just saying....

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:20:10 -0800

So there's nothing in between?

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:24:21 -0800

Nothing worth paying attention to, certainly.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:25:56 -0800

Information is Power Reading is Development HEED THE WORD OF THE OMEGA

By: Voice of God

Voice of God — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:35:32 -0800

Feel free to beat me on the head with an explanation - but I don't really get the relevance of this. And why the bananaphone reference?

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:52:22 -0800

Am I missing something? It would be pretty interesting to see an alphabetized list of domain names, maybe with one of those nifty scrolling flash interfaces like that "most popular english words" site had... Is this just the two bookends?

By: bright cold day

bright cold day — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:17:18 -0800

The good thing about bookends is that they let you know where the beginning and the end are. It's a comforting thing to know. That, and they stop stuff falling off the shelf. Think where we'd be without the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network then. The rest of the Internets could end up on the floor.

By: rkent

rkent — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:33:45 -0800

The last one you could find was ZWRCN? Come on, you're not even trying; there's a Zyzzyva staring you right in the face! And by "face" I mean "google." Once again my overabundance of Scrabble knowledge comes in handy...

By: esch

esch — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:04:19 -0800

rkent: that's a .org, which clearly comes before .zw

By: vernondalhart

vernondalhart — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:15:14 -0800

... Except that when you order things lexicographically you start at the beginning, not at the end.

By: fvw

fvw — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:34:55 -0800

Yes, and the beginning of a hostname is the top of the tree, which is the top level domain.

By: jazon

jazon — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:11:55 -0800

Who cares about the beginning or end? How about the middle? According to IANA's WHOIS there is no 'X' TLD, so the middle letter is M, and the middle M TLD is Northern Mariana Islands, which is managed by Get MP. And because it's late and I don't care that's as close to the middle as I'm going to get.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 04:53:58 -0800

jazon, that's a poor way to find the middle TLD. Take the list of the ccTLDs. Add the 11 gTLDs. That's 261 total. The middle one is .kw, Kuwait.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 05:27:11 -0800

You obviously look for the final TLD first and proceed backwards from there.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:45:11 -0800

Wow. Just, wow. I mean, I never, ever in my wildest dreams expected Pretty_Generic, of all Mefites, to post such a lame FPP.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:08:34 -0800

I was drunk. I still think it's pretty cool though.

By: starscream

starscream — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:16:20 -0800

Now, if only someone could guide me on how to purchase the www.8b.it domain! :)

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:39:57 -0800

zzzzz