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Are there any negative consequences to this "misuse"?
by bauerd 7y ago
Are there any negative consequences to this "misuse"?
- Symbiote 7y agoCCTLDs are useful for searching. I fairly often add "site:dk" to my Google searches. I know I'm excluding Danish sites using generic TLDs, or using Danish domain hacks¹, but it's usually good enough to get past the irrelevant results I didn't want. Search engines can also use the CCTLD as part of the signalling -- a .dk site is almost certainly related to Denmark. That doesn't work for .to, .nu, .cc and so on. (.IO is unusual, the only genuinely linked site I can see is the government's, at https://biot.gov.io/ https://biot.gov.io/ ) Google has a list of CCTLDs it considers "generic"², I don't know if they have workarounds for sites actually linked to these places. ¹ "A/S" is a type of company registration, so American Samoa ".as" is used, "nu" means "now" so there's some use of Niue ".nu". ² https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192#generic-domains https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192#generic-...
- numpad0 7y agoWhy not just lang:ja
- seszett 7y agoIt works for Japan I guess, but it's often more important (well, to me at least) to discriminate by country than by language.
- Symbiote 7y agoI use it when I want a recipe using local (Danish/European) measures and ingredients, or restaurants in this city, or a relevant government or official website. Many of these have an English version in Denmark, which I understand much more easily. Not-Denmark-but-English results are most of what I'm trying to exclude -- recipes full of sugar with measurements in Fahren-cups, restaurants in the three Copenhagens in North America, etc.
- kzrdude 7y agoDoes this work? Seems to work in some searches and in some others it treats "lang" as a search term instead.
- agwa 7y agoYeah, ccTLDs are often poorly run and domain names can be seized for arbitrary political reasons. In contrast, gTLDs are regulated by ICANN and are required to uphold technical and policy standards.
- marvin 7y agoThis statement sounds rather ironic in a discussion that involves a .org domain. Although I'm sure country-TLDs can in principle do things that are much worse.
- agwa 7y agoThey absolutely can. Just one example of how ICAAN regulation helps: ICAAN requires that the .org registry let domain owners lock in their current price for 10 years if a price increase is announced, and prohibits different renewal prices for different domains. ccTLDs can just increase prices with no notice, or price gouge popular domains. And .io is certainly worse than .org will ever be - there have been numerous security outages of the .io name servers and one very bad security incident: https://thehackerblog.com/the-io-error-taking-control-of-all-io-domains-with-a-targeted-registration/index.html https://thehackerblog.com/the-io-error-taking-control-of-all...
- bdcravens 7y agoYou can lose your domain based on politics of operating country. https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/04/letter-ly-abrupt-ly-loses-domain-name-as-a-result-of-the-war-in-libya/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/04/letter-ly-abrupt-ly-loses-...