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Does anybody know why the USA hogs the toplevel domain? It's not the only government in the world. It would seem more just to make it more like .com than .edu.
by xyz-x 7y ago
Does anybody know why the USA hogs the toplevel domain? It's not the only government in the world. It would seem more just to make it more like .com than .edu.
- zokier 7y agoIt's a perk from building the internet. Early bird gets the worm etc
- avocado4 7y agoBecause they came up with it.
- ptaipale 7y agoObviously, because of history of Internet deriving from Arpanet. The whole domain name structure grew out of the needs of the US government, even if the .com domain was largest TLD from the start.
- astura 7y agoNope, .gov belongs to the US, so they get to hog it. It's a historical vestige, the Internet started out as a U.S. government-sponsored research network, so they built it for their own needs. There's absolutely no reason to them to give that up.
- velosol 7y agoIn addition to all the siblings, government isn't always spelled with 'gov' so it would be useful to the subset of countries where those letters make sense. Compared to say Mexico with http://gob.mx http://gob.mx .