Michael O'Keefe wrote:
None of those TLD's are US only anymore.
Anyone, from anywhere in the world can grab one of those TLD's
Nor are the rules applying to those enforced anymore (non-profit for
.org, ISP for .net)
It's not my problem that people decided to ignore the rules.
I'd prefer that they had limited tlds to their proper places, but just
because they didn't doesn't mean we need to muck it up further.
All those TLD's should become international property, and the US start
living off .us
One of the advantages of researching, funding, and implementing the
system is that you get to setup the rules the way you like.
If that means the U.S. gets cooler domains than everyone else, so be it.
Does anyone remember .nato?
I always thought that'd be a good email domain.
No, the TLD system was an afterthought, especially internationlisation.
The ccTLDs are based on an ISO standard, they are certainly not an
afterthought.
.uk was online in 1985, DNS had only been around for, what, a year at
that point?
In fact, there have recently been complaints about the TLD system
falling back into the one thing that it was designed to get rid of. With
every man and his dog getting a .com address, it's basically one large
/etc/hosts now.
I don't deny that it got screwed up (Especially .com, .net, and .org)
but that's not reason to screw it up even further.
-ajb
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