The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root – like many already do with a subdomain for an intranet
  • @DecronymABEnglish
    2•10 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    VPN Virtual Private Network

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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