Yes, only if I want to access *.shark on the internet. That kinda sucks no? Blacking out a whole subsection of the internet because they now suddenly have gTLD that are words which you could freely use before. You're not missing anything. It's just that is someone buys that, I'll have to give up using it locally, or I blackout a part of the Internet. My users (well, okay, in this case only my wife.... but you get the point) won't like that.

These generic TLDs were not a good idea, not now, not never...

I need to read better. You understood fully what I meant... The possibility of a clash is real and very very annoying.

Why? Because it's only authoritative for the local domain of course. I do also have public authoritative DNS servers, but I don't want them to serve private IP addresses. So, at home my domain is called simply "sharks" (buying that goes like, what? 50k€). It is not public, but authoritative locally. Now, of course, I could take one of the domains I own, and use that. I don't really like that idea. My hosts are named after shark species, so you have mako.sharks, hammerhead.sharks, etc... mako.jawtheshark.com really isn't the same.

Perhaps it makes it slightly clearer. Contrary to popular belief, an authoritative server does not need to be authoritative for the public internet. Locally is just fine. Just don't use stuff that clashes with the public DNS system.

if the other LAN members communicate with "linux.home" an entry is supposed to be already present in "hosts" (like) files

Host files? Are you serious? Nobody outside the tech world uses those and even the techs don't use it except for very very specific cases. For the normal users there is DNS-SD (Zeroconf) and anybody more technical is better off simply setting up a DNS server with authoritative zone for the local network (Which is why I hate these new TLDs... My domain of choice might be sold someday and I'll have to give it up using locally... having to use the boring .local or .home), with the added benefit of having a real DNS server on site becoming totally independent of the ISP DNS (well, unless you want to make a forwarding one).

This is a problem of their making. The generic TLDs shouldn't ever have been introduced.

I've always heard the complaint that porn would make feel young men inadequate. I was mostly surprised about that. I never felt inadequate.... Guess, I'm very lucky.

For all I care, they could limit it to people with Excellent Karma or a certain amount of years active user. I couldn't care, but a beta without feedback is no beta.

Except... Well, I have quite some suggestions as there definitely is no feature parity.

Would it be so hard to have a page called "report bugs" where you can, call me crazy... report bugs?

There is simply no clear way to give feedback. At least, I haven't seen it.

Perhaps we are indeed witnessing the downfall of the PC era.