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I was quite confused why the government would create an entire site telling people to stop consuming manga. I mean, I personally don't care for manga/anime stuff, but really?

Turns out it's just a website for Quitman, GA. https://quitmanga.gov

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We know at least one New Hampshire politician really wasn't a fan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickolas_Levasseur

The Pen Island Effect [0] is so strong I read the comment to mean that the writer was happy it was not the whole of government but a only particular town in Georgia was against Japanese comic books.

Some days I wonder if DNS was a colossal mistake. I have plenty of room for remembering numbers now that phones are dead. (Ignoring the ever looming never quite here ipv6.)

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14343390

> The Pen Island Effect [0] is so strong I read the comment to mean that the writer was happy it was not the whole of government but a only particular town in Georgia was against Japanese comic books.

LOL, no. Like I said, I personally don't care for manga/anime but I have nothing against others enjoying it.

My apologies, I didn't mean to claim you supported the town of Quitman's online jeremiad, but an appreciation that the effort was limited to one municipality.

My favorite is handynasty.net which is a great schezuan place here in philadelphia and totally not Handy Nasty.net

The ultimate remains that great pre-Stack Exchange site, expertsexchange.com. They had to rebrand to add hyphens.

My favorite (maybe apocryphal) has always been the Italian division of PowerGen.

powergenitalia.com

There was also childrenswear, therapist, speedofart, molestation, cumstore, lesbocages, teacherstalking, and a few others I no longer remember.

I understand most of these, but the original meaning of cumstore eludes me.

That one was less of an unfortunate name choice and more of an unfortunate business model choice

It is both a spicy food place and handy nasty. Calling it anything else is silly.

> Pen Island Effect

In my days it was referred to as expertsexchange...

This brought out an audible chuckle from me. Definitely stealing this and sharing this site with a few co-workers who are heavily into manga/anime. Thanks for the laugh.

If only DNS could be namespaced..., eg quitman.ga.gov

Only a marginal improvement though

Isn't delegating a zone pretty much the same concept in DNS? Or am I missing sarcasm here?

Yeah was sarcasm as it seems to be a really obvious thing to do.

We do it in the UK with <councilname>.gov.uk

(Not sure if it's actual delegation or just A records though)

We also do it in the US, although I feel like it was more common 20-years ago than it is now. For example, here in North Carolina, local school systems are typically “https://[county name]schools.k12.nc.us”

Yeah, our state did that kind of thing 20 years ago, but people get confused with more than x.y, because nobody ever taught anyone the concept that domains are a hierarchy and that periods have a specific role that’s different to slashes, hyphens, etc. So to 90% of people they couldn’t explain how “order.TacoBell.com” is different than “TacoBell.order.com” and as such wouldn’t ever remember what order “k12” “nc” and “us” might go in.

Indeed, because the hierarchical nature of addressing conventions is a new thing.

Not sure if sarcastic or not. I think most people don’t think of a URL as an address in the way that a building has an address with a strict hierarchy of meaningful parts. I think people think of it more as an atomic long string of characters that the person who made the site labeled it with just by being the first to claim a certain URL.

You still have the "email can't get to Essex or Sussex" problem though.

Sarcasm.

People get confused (particularly in the US) if they are always used to x.y.

I like fully qualifying domain names (like x.y. in your example) and it’s funny how many sites break when you do this

Wait, really? Could you share some examples? Why would they break for a FQDN. Wouldn’t that mean that the root servers aren’t configured correctly for that TLD?

I'm not sure exactly why things break, but as an example: fully-qualifying youtube.com (to youtube.com.) used to break the code that displayed the ads and you could watch ad-free

It is. As an example:

https://sos.ga.gov/

In practice, people get confused by that.

We have that in Ontario and honestly it's often just kind of a source of confusion, like this is for a specific agency overseeing just the St Lawrence:

https://www.parks.on.ca

Whereas the actual Ontario Parks website is this:

https://www.ontarioparks.ca

They are lucky it isn’t quitmaga.gov.

Hopefully there's a Dem leader in Georgia who will jump in on the map changing game for this domain

I first thought it was quitmaga.gov

As an insider revolt against Musk's shenanigans. lol

xD.gov

Reminder: in 2007, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture issued a statement that they're "not in charge of Gundam" (because of a "scandal" where their employees were editing the Japanese Wikipedia page for it while at work).

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21151261

Someone needs some pocket cash I guess.

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