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DNS and an Evolving Political Crisis: a Saga of the .cat Domain

Evan on November 19, 2018

In 2017, the Spanish government shut down several websites with the top level domain .cat. πŸ”₯🐱πŸ”₯ To understand why, let’s learn about DNS, how the ...
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Peter Kim Frank

This is absolutely fascinating. I used to be involved in the "domain" scene, and had never heard of .cat.

To my knowledge, all ccTLD had to be two characters, but it looks like there's a whole category of Geographic Top Level Domains.

This is a great overview and explanation, thanks for sharing.

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Christian Kaindl • Edited

Great article! Very cool way of writing IMO, and I definitely learned something new.

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Evan

Thanks! Someone told me awhile ago "don't write a tutorial, write a story." Definitely what I'd like to do.