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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. Laypers

by 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.