Comments on: Decoding the Domain Name del.icio.us

By: Watch Year One Online Free

Watch Year One Online Free — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:52:01 +0000

The topic is quite hot in the net at the moment. What do you pay attention to while choosing what to write ?
p.s. Year One is already on the Internet and you can watch it for free.

By: Jos

Jos — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:32:36 +0000

Actually, I do don’t see the point about the arguing either, for another reason, cuz it simply IS a subdomain, and it’s important that newbies don’t learn it wrong…right? :)

you can also have many deeper levels of subdomains (i don’t know the limit)

for example: http://lvl5.lvl4.lvl3.lvl2.lvl1.nl

I noticed some ISP’s tend to do that when translating their customer IP’s to hostnames (or vice-versa). Sometimes even their home village is included in the hostname.

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By: Young Model S

Young Model S — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:05:02 +0000

This post started out saying it was for newbies, so I don’t see why there’s so much arguing about whether del is sub domain or server or whatever. Post is just to explain to those confused out there about where del.icio.us name came from and how it can exist (or other sites created using same principals)

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:53:00 +0000

Are you sure it’s a host? It could be a load balancer that points at a whole cluster of servers, which wouldn’t surprise me considering the amount of traffic del.icio.us gets.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:01:00 +0000

I've been using the domain "ntio.us" so my web address could be "http://prete.ntio.us". There are also a vew other words that you can make out of that: consientious, contentious etc. michael

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:02:00 +0000

hmm, blogger ditched my faked URL with my email address: ben at sixgDOTcom

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:58:00 +0000

You bow too easily to outside influence… of course del is a subdomain. Even the wikipedia article you linked to says so. “us” is a top-level domain, “icio” is a second-level domain, and “del” is a subdomain. Yes, an A record describes a host but that is irrelevant. There is an A record for yahoo.com, but does that mean it is a “host” and not a “domain”? Of course it is both. They are orthogonal. “del” is a host and a subdomain. Hmm, not sure if I’m being very clear, but you can email me if you want.

Other than that, cool blog, interesting posts. I found you through populicio.us.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:27:00 +0000

So if the server is named “Del”, I wonder if it is a Dell server? ;-)