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and this is a problem why? i can see taking issue with allowing unicode tlds. where some russian characters are almost identical to a latin based char-set for i

and this is a problem why? i can see taking issue with allowing unicode tlds. where some russian characters are almost identical to a latin based char-set for instance, but if you can't tell the difference between bankofamerica.com and bankofamerica.cn, you probably also fall for a lot of other scams offline too.

VMG 16y ago
What about multinational companies like paypal? Would you recommend a non-internet-savvy user from china to rather go to paypal.cn or to paypal.com/cn ? What would a non-savvy user normally do? In this case paypal.cn redirects to paypal.com/cn, but would you have known? Another example: Python.com redirected to a hardcore porn site for years. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but I think both sites and their respective audiences would have been better off if there wasn't .com, .net and .org
- bad_user 16y ago
  Python.com redirected to a hardcore porn site for years It could have redirected to an online store selling snake aquariums. And which would have been more "legit" in the eyes of the public? The homepage of an obscure tool related to software developers, or something actually related to pythons?
  - VMG 16y ago
    I think there isn't going to be a system where the domain name points to the site that is more "legit" or "relevant", that is the job of search engines. Laypersons already use google instead of dns and enter "facebook" or "facebook.com" because they 1) don't have to remember the TLD and 2) get to facebook even when they made a typo. So a domain name should probably still belong to whomever registered it first. I'm not a DNS wizard but using whois I figure python.com was registered one year before python.org, which would have become python-lang.com or something more descriptive if there weren't these other suffixes.
    - bad_user 16y ago
      Except python.org is so much better than python-lang.com that isn't even funny. Case in point ... I searched for "ruby language" dozens of times before learning "ruby-lang.org". And the ".org" suffix was the easy part because my brain associates those domains with non-profit stuff. I also find TLDs to be useful for figuring out the target of a website. E.g. ".co.uk" / ".de" / ".eu" are usually companies with headquarters in the European Union.

VMG 16y ago

What about multinational companies like paypal? Would you recommend a non-internet-savvy user from china to rather go to paypal.cn or to paypal.com/cn ? What would a non-savvy user normally do? In this case paypal.cn redirects to paypal.com/cn, but would you have known? Another example: Python.com redirected to a hardcore porn site for years. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but I think both sites and their respective audiences would have been better off if there wasn't .com, .net and .org

bad_user 16y ago
Python.com redirected to a hardcore porn site for years It could have redirected to an online store selling snake aquariums. And which would have been more "legit" in the eyes of the public? The homepage of an obscure tool related to software developers, or something actually related to pythons?
- VMG 16y ago
  I think there isn't going to be a system where the domain name points to the site that is more "legit" or "relevant", that is the job of search engines. Laypersons already use google instead of dns and enter "facebook" or "facebook.com" because they 1) don't have to remember the TLD and 2) get to facebook even when they made a typo. So a domain name should probably still belong to whomever registered it first. I'm not a DNS wizard but using whois I figure python.com was registered one year before python.org, which would have become python-lang.com or something more descriptive if there weren't these other suffixes.
  - bad_user 16y ago
    Except python.org is so much better than python-lang.com that isn't even funny. Case in point ... I searched for "ruby language" dozens of times before learning "ruby-lang.org". And the ".org" suffix was the easy part because my brain associates those domains with non-profit stuff. I also find TLDs to be useful for figuring out the target of a website. E.g. ".co.uk" / ".de" / ".eu" are usually companies with headquarters in the European Union.