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ICANN is not a boring bureaucracy: internet governance drama buried in acronyms
dotcom.press/archive/icann84

Writing about ICANN reminded me of my favorite David Foster Wallace essay, Authority and American Usage ("Did you know that US lexicography even *had* a seamy underbelly?")

Good idea! I listed a few books at the very bottom, but I should add a more full sources list

https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains

I put together a timeline of domain history from DNS to 2026 gTLDs. Inspired by @deno.land's Brief History of JS and @neal.fun's Internet Artifacts (which is amazing if you haven't read through it before!)

dotcom.press/history-of-domains

Weeks since I got confused over missing meta viewport tag:
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Rare usernames "may be priced anywhere from $2,500 to over seven figures, depending on demand and uniqueness" and "if you ever downgrade your X subscription, your account will revert back to your original username, and you’ll lose access to the one you snagged through the marketplace."

X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles X is launching a Handle Marketplace where Premium subscribers will be able to search and request usernames that have been unavailable.

@terrenceobrien.bsky.social's article on Twitter's secondary marketplace for handles reminds me of the secondary market for domain names, including the perpetual renewal cost

theverge.com/news/802474/x-is-launching-a-marketplace-for-inactive-handles

Oo that is a good domain! It'd be cool if they also had os.be (or some other .be domain)

https://www.dotcom.press/archive/anguilla

By a strange coincidence Anguilla is the country where AI has had the biggest (proportional) economic impact so far...
dotcom.press/archive/anguilla

this is a good cover! scrolling through your 2025 books and this one stopped my scroll

#5 — September 2025 Pete Millspaugh's digital garden

September
petemillspaugh.com/september-2025

#4 — August 2025 Pete Millspaugh's digital garden

August 2025
petemillspaugh.com/august-2025

did not have that on my bingo card 😅

Excerpt from dotcom.press/archive/wholesale-domains

Wholesale domains
dotcom.press/archive/wholesale-domains

How DNS Works

@b0rk.jvns.ca's How DNS Works is a treasure chest of technical domain rabbit holes for dotcom.press

(my favorite being root-servers.org)

DM me if you have domain stories or good reads/listens to share :)

I wrote about my "why" in this month's garden clipping: petemillspaugh.com/july-2025

*dot com et al* book website at dotcom.press

I'm writing a book!

TIL Amazon has a domain registry (AWS "Route 53")

worth a thousand words! I think the rendering engines and js engines would be siblings instead of parent child? e.g. V8 under Blink but not nested maybe

what's the logo behind safari?

What should I know about JavaScript engines and runtimes? Pete Millspaugh's digital garden

I went down an adjacent rabbit hole recently wondering about the differences between js runtimes versus js engines versus js the language

www.petemillspaugh.com/javascript-e...

"Is it JavaScript?" would be a good name for the quiz section of justjavascript.com

I like the conclusion you settle on, that something is just javascript if it follows ECMAScript (and therefore runs anywhere js runs)

I’m rooting for a JavaScript Conference 2026 sponsored by @deno.land 🤞

deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle3

(Sign the petition if you haven’t already!)

Default styles for h1 elements are changing | MDN Blog Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings. This post describes the incoming changes, how to identify if it's an issue on your websites, and hints for c...

I took for granted that browser default styles wouldn’t change, but: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/h1-element-styles

One point for having a heavy CSS reset and adding back default margins etc

I just finished Eat & Run, and I read Born to Run and How Not to Die before that. Looking for more books in that theme (eating plants, running)

Came across two more lovely spins on @busterbenson.com's busterbenson.com/life-in-weeks

@ginatrapani.org's weeks.ginatrapani.org and Rafał Pastuszak's days.sonnet.io

Remix itself only has ~2M monthly downloads, though, so I guess most React Router apps are pre-Remix

npm.chart.dev/@remix-run/react

npm.chart.dev/react-router
npm.chart.dev/next

(React Router v7 is the successor to Remix v2)

react-router npm download chart

next npm download chart

I haven't heard much about Remix lately, but turns out React Router still has more monthly downloads than Next.js (47M vs 32M in Jan '25)

Thanks!