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What's the use case? Or just a fun programming task?

Wouldn't this hammer wikipedia unnecessarily? DNS are very quick, lightweight requests.



Use cases are given on the github page. It's useful for sites that aren't indexed by Google and for avoiding spam.


This is not doing DNS. This is "domain name autocomplete".


It's using Wikipedia as a provider for CNAME records. Does it count as DNS?


No because using this also requires DNS


If you want to visit a site like 'The Pirate Bay' or 'Sci-Hub' by name, Wikipedia provides the URL, whereas google doesn't.




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