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It's not entirely stupid. Although, if you are arguing specifically against the non-regional TLDs, then I would probably agree with you. .gov was a bad idea.

by dboyd 16y ago

It's not entirely stupid. Although, if you are arguing specifically against the non-regional TLDs, then I would probably agree with you. .gov was a bad idea. .gov.us (or .gov.ca.us) is not. Outside of obviously regional things. amazon.de and amazon.ca serve their purpose fairly well. I would agree that the difference between ibm.com and ibm.org and ibm.net is impractical at best.

bkudria 16y ago
Agreed. .gov was a bad idea, along with .com/.net/.org/.co/.mobi/.me/.biz/.info/.etc I don't see the need to have a distinction between amazon.de and amazon.ca. If Amazon wants to segment by country, they can do that on their own, not by offloading onto DNS. Getting rid of also silly things like .co.uk would be great, but raise lots of uncomfortable questions. Ideally, DNS is would be nationally/politically blind, with the exception of government entities under .gov.*.{gTLD}
- jarek 16y ago
  .me is a ccTLD is for Montenegro.
  - bkudria 16y ago
    That's not how GoDaddy is selling it. One could make an argument that it ceases to become a ccTLD once anyone can register it for "novelty"/domain-hacking use.
    - jarek 16y ago
      Godaddy doesn't operate the registry for .me. ccTLD is just a class of TLDs established with a specific purpose. The purpose might get de facto expanded at the country's discretion, but that doesn't obviate the original purpose. The people of Montenegro would disagree with your claim that .me was a bad idea. With no geographic-based TLDs, you introduce a need to disambiguate non-related brands which would have been perfectly distinguished by ccTLDs. Compare http://www.era.mk/ http://www.era.mk/ and http://www.era.pl/ http://www.era.pl/ - neither organization is controversial in its right to the TLD in its country, but one or both would have to settle for a disambiguation otherwise.
      - jarek 16y ago
        Disambiguation by business might be an idea - but then which TV1 gets priority? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV1

by dboyd 16y ago

bkudria 16y ago

Agreed. .gov was a bad idea, along with .com/.net/.org/.co/.mobi/.me/.biz/.info/.etc I don't see the need to have a distinction between amazon.de and amazon.ca. If Amazon wants to segment by country, they can do that on their own, not by offloading onto DNS. Getting rid of also silly things like .co.uk would be great, but raise lots of uncomfortable questions. Ideally, DNS is would be nationally/politically blind, with the exception of government entities under .gov.*.{gTLD}

jarek 16y ago
.me is a ccTLD is for Montenegro.
- bkudria 16y ago
  That's not how GoDaddy is selling it. One could make an argument that it ceases to become a ccTLD once anyone can register it for "novelty"/domain-hacking use.
  - jarek 16y ago
    Godaddy doesn't operate the registry for .me. ccTLD is just a class of TLDs established with a specific purpose. The purpose might get de facto expanded at the country's discretion, but that doesn't obviate the original purpose. The people of Montenegro would disagree with your claim that .me was a bad idea. With no geographic-based TLDs, you introduce a need to disambiguate non-related brands which would have been perfectly distinguished by ccTLDs. Compare http://www.era.mk/ http://www.era.mk/ and http://www.era.pl/ http://www.era.pl/ - neither organization is controversial in its right to the TLD in its country, but one or both would have to settle for a disambiguation otherwise.
    - jarek 16y ago
      Disambiguation by business might be an idea - but then which TV1 gets priority? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV1