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That's a dangerous precedent. If nobody has the right to a phone number, and governments can assign any telephone number to themselves that they wish, that the
by deftnerd 8y ago
That's a dangerous precedent.
If nobody has the right to a phone number, and governments can assign any telephone number to themselves that they wish, that the Russian government can take over the phone number to the Whitehouse Switchboard? Then the Whitehouse would have to take it back and it would be the start of a perpetual tug-of-war?
I assume your response would be that "no, the US has already reserved that number". But isn't that what happened with France.com? It was already reserved.
- 49bc 8y agoTelephone numbers are well delineated between counties with “country codes”. I don’t think anybody is confused about which country owns what number.
- hultner 8y agoBut so are domains, just with a suffix instead of a prefix. You oughta think a .com domain is more suitable for a commercial entity then for a government/state department.
- simias 8y ago.com has become the de-facto default TLD for the net for better or worse.
- gsich 8y agosomewhat disagree, hipster companies use .io for example
- setr 8y agodoing as hipsters do, specifically avoiding the norm/default. a perfect example of the exception proving the rule, i think
- 9935c101ab17a66 8y agoMaybe the default for businesses, but not countries. Canada.com -> Not government owned USA.com -> not government owned Germany.com -> not government owned Just some quick ones I checked, but you get the gist.
- hultner 8y agoAs a Sweden .se is the de-facto domain for everything specific to Sweden. I.e. see http://sweden.com/ http://sweden.com/ vs http://sweden.se/ http://sweden.se/ Or http://www.skatteverket.se/ http://www.skatteverket.se/ vs http://www.skatteverket.com/ http://www.skatteverket.com/ for that matter. From my experience .com is the de-facto domain for international commercial entities. For my personal domain I use hultner.se
- mediaserf 8y agoThis is the interesting thing. If it had been france.us - would the policy be different? .com is a special case, as if a number existed outside of an allocated country code.