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Telephone numbers are well delineated between counties with “country codes”. I don’t think anybody is confused about which country owns what number.

• hultner 8y ago
  But 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 ago
      somewhat disagree, hipster companies use .io for example
      • setr 8y ago
        doing as hipsters do, specifically avoiding the norm/default. a perfect example of the exception proving the rule, i think
    • 9935c101ab17a66 8y ago
      Maybe 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 ago
      As 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 ago
    This 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.