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EU.org domains can be registered for free and do not expire. I've registered one more than 10 years ago, set up DNS using he.net and never had any issues.


To avoid confusion: ”This site has no relation with the European Union, despite its name.”[1]

> do not expire

The current expiration date for all eu.org domains is 2026-08-08[2].

[1] https://nic.eu.org/

[2] https://who.is/whois/eu.org


> EU.org domains can be registered for free and do not expire.

But "eu.org" is not a TLD.

If I were looking to register a domain for 10 years, the last thing I would do is put myself at the mercy of a middleman peddling subdomains.


All registrations are at the mercy of a middleman, especially gTLD registrations.


Ok... So two middlemen


Similarly for JS developers out there, https://js.org/ has free subdomains for anything related to JavaScript


See also https://www.getfreedomain.name for more free subdomains like that. I guess something like this is good enough for "a website", but you eventually end up getting what you paid for ...


.eu.org namespace isn't crowded either. I could register my first name with it, and gleefully kept it for a few years now. I have more trust with them to run it more than those novelty gTLDs that run all sorts of games to take as much money as possible.


I experienced my DNS service quitting and being unable to change my nameservers in EU.org; my email had changed, so automatic reset didn’t work, and guess how much tech support you get when you pay zero.

EU.org cannot be recommended for longevity.


Not sure if it applies, but when the UK left the EU, our access to EU domains was, predictably, cut off. Apart from the politics of it, it was jarring because domain names can be so pivotal to so many aspects of business and life.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-doma...


> Honestly, I have no idea why people still use it when Google Maps has an infinitely better interface and no ads.

Waze has speed trap warnings, Google maps doesn't.


What does he stand to gain, surely this is a breach of contract.


I think the parent meant done intentionally by Apple? The whole thing could be a PR stunt.


His daughter gets famous and gets into a career she wanted?


It is fleeting though: her “fame” and potentially career (though seems like that isn’t her end goal, seems more like she’s like every teenager I’ve met who wants to publicly video document everything and use it as some kind of social interaction) are predicated on access to prerelease Apple hardware. That’s gone now.


Looks like most of the code is processing the arguments.


It is. -h, -v


--help, --version. Short options are not recognized.


Get rich quick on hacker news?


> Though I have a feeling many of these are only going to be used for internal networks.

Why would an internal network need a publicly resolvable domain?


Its good practice to own the domain you use internally so that someone else cant register it, then proceed to do evil.


Not sure if it still works, but in Israel it is as simple as prepending the voice mail prefix to the phone number. Some voice mail boxes can receive faxes, so there is some legitimate use for it.


Theresa May should educate herself before making statements like that.

Any person with half a brain and has some knowledge about how the internet works, knows that it's not possible to regulate it entirely.

For example, any image can be made to contain an encrypted message, without anyone ever knowing it's there [1]. This will just be another blow to everyone's privacy if she gets her way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography


True. What does viewing pornography have to do with terrorism? I find it despicable that she's using a horrible event to push forward her own agenda.


Obviously, porn weakens the moral fiber, thus making people more susceptible to other immoral plans, like terrorism.

/s


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