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When has DNS ever been democratic? Since day one e.g. the .GOV and .EDU TLDs have been used only for educational institutions in the US, whose portion of the wo
by avar 7y ago
When has DNS ever been democratic? Since day one e.g. the .GOV and .EDU TLDs have been used only for educational institutions in the US, whose portion of the word population is on the order of 5%.
There's surely a lot of sucky things about the new arrangement where big companies can buy TLDs, but it's much more democratic for the rest of the 95% of humanity than when the US had de-facto control of the system. Just look at how many new TLDs are e.g. owned by Chinese companies.
- jjtheblunt 7y agoTo be historical, the US had this system running inside the US for a very long time before it was deployed worldwide. It's a quirk of a home grown system having outgrown its original purpose.
- NikkiA 7y ago1970 (NORSAR) from 1968/1969 (beginnings of ARPANET) is not 'a very long time' and predates DNS by over a decade anyway.
- scythe 7y agoThe requirement for .edu domains to be US-based was added in 2001.
- souterrain 7y agoI hadn’t realized this. So, we can pack .edu full of for-profit degree mills, but myriad respectable research universities the world over are forbidden. Mind boggling.
- fh973 7y agoWith some exceptions like teco.edu...