I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    How the hell were the original rfc designers so creative as to result in such a flexible system?? It’s gets crazier the more you look at it.

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      11 months ago

      It makes the system as a whole simpler. Your computer only needs to remember one root DNS server (although most computers allow setting 4 for redundancy) as opposed to one DNS server for each TLD, and it also makes adding TLDs easier.