so there's a supermarket chain round here called e.leclerc, and they also do truck rentals

on their trucks they print "location.leclerc" (lit: rental.leclerc). there's no indication that this is a url, no http:// or www, no planet symbol

it is quickly clear to me that this is a url, because, being a turbonerd, i know that you can just buy a TLD nowadays, and i know that they did. but this seems confusing for everyone else. if anything, this looks like an instagram username (not taken, btw)

my questions are thus
- does this seem obvious to you?
- do you think this would be obvious to the least computer literate person in your life?
- seen something like this where you are?

@codl no to all three and also "leclerc" probably seems reasonable to a french speaker but to an english speaker it parses as "lec lerc" and just sounds amusing
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@codl actually maybe yes to the third one? just remembered that the entire .fox tld was bought by a right-wing news outlet over here
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@codl agreed, they need to give foxes back their name

foxes are good
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