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February 10

Rt domain

From what I've found, after Pornhub had been blocked in Russia, its Russian version seemingly switched to rt.pornhub.com (and when I visit it, I'm automatically redirected to the rt address). However, there's no .rt country domain, so is this sort of a made-up backup domain? Thanks. 212.180.235.46 (talk) 16:22, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

the leading rt is just the name of the system that PornHub is using for the Russian version of the site, it is not a top level domain. It is the same as the en in front of wikipedia.org for the english version of Wikipedia. top-level domains always come at the end of the address, not at the beginning. RudolfRed (talk) 16:28, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, though I still wonder why rt and not ru is used per widely accepted ISO 639 and similar language codes. 212.180.235.46 (talk) 19:36, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The choice of subdomains under a foo.com domain is entirely up to the owner of foo.com; there is no standard to conform to. --142.112.149.107 (talk) 05:19, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If they are blocked in Russia, they possibly don't want to wake every dog up with "RUSSIAN VERSION HERE" as it were. 194.174.73.80 (talk) 11:27, 17 February 2021 (UTC) Marco PB[reply]