Gregory's Server@Eliot_L @mttaggart thanks for this. this is really interesting. i wonder why it took off so much in tech. part of me thinks there must be a better reason than the link to cryptocurrency but then again (the way it sounds from reading that) the lack of legal oversight makes sense too (tho admittedly im jumping to conclusions too after reading just this one thing)
@alienmelon @mttaggart I think it's mostly a factor of it getting popular as an alternative TLD to .com/.net prior to the explosion of alternative gTLDs in the mid-2010s. It sounds kind of computer-y so I think that made it popular for stuff like SaaS. As others have pointed out in this thread I think .ly got popular for similar reasons and was similarly problematic.