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They are moderately popular outside of HTTP for new protocols (eg Minecraft can use them).

I suspect they aren't more popular because it requires some DNS knowledge before you think of them. It's a pity because they are very useful.

Aside: Cloudflare's free DNS hosting service supports them, with low TTL.




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