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		blhack on July 9, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Soon you'll be able to buy any top-level domain yo... have you added this to your hosts file? pinging news.yc doesn't resolve to anything on my openbsd, gentoo linux, or windows xp boxes. I imagine that it won't on the default install (and using (normal DNS) of most any computer.

sho on July 9, 2009 [–]

Yeah, I was cheating and joking : D

  $ grep news.yc /etc/hosts
  174.132.225.106   news.yc

Sorry for making you check! Actually I don't even use it, HN comes up even if I just press "h" in firefox.

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