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If the point is to get to the site faster, why is the TLD "idk"? Couldn't it be 1 letter or at least the same three letters?

On a separate note, someone could actually make a website do this without any extension. It would need to use wikipedia dumps and has the advantage it can't be suddenly edited by a malicious actor.



I assume idk means I don’t know. As in, get me to this website for which I don’t know the domain name.


> On a separate note, someone could actually make a website do this without any extension. It would need to use wikipedia dumps and has the advantage it can't be suddenly edited by a malicious actor.

Why would we trust "a website" more than random wikipedia edits to provide correct or up-to-date data?

The purpose of this app is to get the current url of those sites, which keeps changing url semi-frequently, so a offline copy of wikipedia would not work.




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