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TIL that Experts Exchange actually existed, rather than being a meme of "why you should consider how your business name will look as a domain".



What's wrong with www.ExpertSexChange.com? People deserve to hire experts for that don't they? /s

Somewhere out there must be an RFC that discusses the original thought process behind designing for case sensitive vs case insensitive domain names, or why domains should be case insensitive while URL paths should be case sensitive... Ironically this SO post seems to be a decent starting point for my curiosity: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7996919/should-url-be-ca...


It's still around: http://www.experts-exchange.com


Their old URL doesn't redirect there (take out the dash), so it's understandable that people think it was just a meme/disappeared.


I think poor therapists suffered most from the curious nature of how domain name are. Like http://www.therapist.com/ still exists but redirects. ...

Let's not even mention the plant nursery on the Mole River which ended up with www.molestationnursery.com ...


Are we allowed to make Arrested Development references on Hacker News?




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