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OceanSlim | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The DNR is fucking broken. Too many corpo lobbies investing in "protecting their brand" bunch of BS. Read as "we want to limit competition"
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w3ird | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 can you expand on this? this is genuine curiosity btw.
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OceanSlim | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Any string should be able to be registered as a TLD imo. The only reason it's not is because of the monopoly on domains. 

The "criticism" section of the expansion tells you all you need to know. 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain