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Somehow, despite domains having sufficient differentiation, it has evolved to the point where the first part seems to be all that matters. In this case, "somet
by makecheck 8y ago
Somehow, despite domains having sufficient differentiation, it has evolved to the point where the first part seems to be all that matters.
In this case, "something.fr" should be sufficient in France and yet the reality is that if you don’t also control "something.<foo>" for all possible values of "<foo>", you might encounter a problem later.
Even worse, it has evolved that we now have to care about certain patterns on certain sites. What if you don’t control "something.facebook.com", or "reddit.com/r/something" for instance?
It’s crazy. We need to be deploying security technologies further so that names alone can stop mattering so damned much. All we seem to have in wide use are certificates, which are still not required and essentially not understood by users (if they don’t get an entity name and padlock, they’d probably load the site anyway).
- salzig 8y agoor they could have used .info, as country names are reserved .info names. »ICANN and Afilias have also sealed an agreement for country names to be reserved by ICANN under resolution 01.92.« - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.info
- return1 8y ago.com is a good compromise. i believe the average user assumes the .com domain to be the most legitimate / canonical.
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- gnulinux 8y agoI think it's the exact opposite. .com websites are very rarely legitimate, canonical whereas .org, .edu, .gov etc... are more legitimate and trustworthy
- jpambrun 8y agoAll of those are US only, making .com the next best thing in this case I guess?
- dawnerd 8y agoMaybe it’s time to not make them us only. France.gov would make way more sense.
- draven 8y agoFYI most of (all?) of government related websites are under *.gouv.fr in France. Having an alias under the .gov TLD for people used to this TLD would make sense, like eg tourism.france.gov => tourisme.gouv.fr
- gnulinux 8y agoAll countries have their respective .edu, .gov, .org etc and if you consider them I think my point still stands.
- nightcracker 8y agoWhat do you mean? .edu and .gov are US-only.
- gnulinux 8y agoE.g. France has .gouv.fr which is equivalent of .gov. All countries have their respective replacements, if needed.