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According to RFC 920: "The domain system is a tree-structured global name space that has a few top level domains… While the initial domain name "ARPA" arises f
by sedachv 7y ago
According to RFC 920:
"The domain system is a tree-structured global name space that has a few top level domains… While the initial domain name "ARPA" arises from the history of the development of this system and environment, in the future most of the top level names will be very general categories like "government", "education", or "commercial". The motivation is to provide an organization name that is free of undesirable semantics."
https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc920.txt https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc920.txt
- gist 7y agoFrom 1984 that is 36 years ago. And it's a RFC not the constitution or a law. After much discussion ICANN and parties decided to allow companies to own tld's. And they did.