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No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally

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No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally
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What is DNS? That's right, it's a database. You can disagree with me but you would be wrong. What can you put in a database? Strings, ints (and you learn the difference right quick if your AWS account ID has a leading zero!), JSON objects, coordinates; some of the databases out there have some pretty esoteric types. PostgreSQL supports circle, a polygon, a macaddr8, and a tsquery. Oracle will store a ROWID and your dignity. In a word, databases store data. Can you put answers in a database? Well

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