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To 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 havin
by jjtheblunt 7y ago
To 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.