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As an average user, how do I know which is which? How can I tell whether .ABCXYZ is competently run and trustworthy? gTLDs & ccTLDs have to be some of the wors
by coldpie 9y ago
As an average user, how do I know which is which? How can I tell whether .ABCXYZ is competently run and trustworthy?
gTLDs & ccTLDs have to be some of the worst ideas in Internet history.
- CydeWeys 9y agoccTLDs are two letters long and gTLDs are everything else.
- walrus01 9y agoexcept all the new punycode IDN ccTLDs which now exist, for chinese, bulgarian, russian, etc.
- walrus01 9y ago> gTLDs have to be some of the worst ideas in Internet history. Not if you're an investor in Donuts, LLC, they're not...
- jmelloy 9y agoccTLDs (Country Codes) are always two letters. gTLDs aren't. The gTLDs have a pretty strict ICANN contract they have to follow; ccTLDs are looser.
- kijeda 9y ago_ASCII_ ccTLDs are always two letters. There are ccTLDs in other scripts that are of variable length (.ไทย, .ελ, .укр, .한국 etc.)
- guillon 9y agoccTLDs are loosers? Not according to their increasing registration figures.
- jodrellblank 9y agoLooser != loser
- zokier 9y agoccTLDs are pretty much the most sensible thing in DNS hierarchy. The "original" TLDs (.com, .net, .org etc) had mostly lost their meaning by late 90s (iirc), and were heavily biased towards the US anyways and as such would have made far more sense as second-level domains for .us, where enforcing the separation could have at least hypothetically worked in some reasonable way.