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.Onion Gets a Boost From IETF, IANA: Now It's a Special-Use Domain

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-get-a-domain dept.

An anonymous reader writes: As tweeted by Jacob Appelbaum, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority today listed .onion as a special-use domain, and the IETF approved a Draft RFC for the domain describing its intended uses. As described on the Facebook Over Tor page, "Jointly, these actions enable '.onion' as special-use, top-level domain name for which SSL certificates may be issued in accordance with the Certificate-Authority & Browser Forum 'Ballot 144' — which was passed in February this year. ... Together, this assures the validity and future availability of SSL certificates in order to assert and protect the ownership of Onion sites throughout the whole of the Tor network."

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  1. Re:I was really hoping... by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Area man pretends to give a shit.

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  2. Holy crap... by Ecuador · · Score: 2, Funny

    Holy crap, I haven't read TFA of course, but does this mean they have devoted a top-level domain to parody news?

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    1. Re:Holy crap... by Calydor · · Score: 3, Funny

      slashdot dot slash dot slash story slash ...

      Ow my head.

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  3. Re:I was really hoping... by goodmanj · · Score: 3, Funny

    Y'know, a .theonion domain would be really useful: all satire websites could use it, and we could program browsers to add "[THIS IS SATIRE YOU MORON]" whenever my relatives paste a .theonion URL into Facebook.