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		notatoad on April 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: elgooG it's not the root of the hierarchy, it's just up a level. How is .google or .bike or .app any less arbitrary than .com, .net, or .jobs? ICANN picked some arbitrary TLDs a while back, now they've picked some more.

zymhan on April 1, 2015 [–]

They're called "Top Level Domains", so they are the root. com, net, and org are certainly arbitrary, but they're also predictable.

Soon we'll just have no consistency in domain names.

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