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Agree with the article, it is annoying that some student discount only applies with .edu email address which means US-only accredited school. But a lot of .edu

Agree with the article, it is annoying that some student discount only applies with .edu email address which means US-only accredited school. But a lot of .edu email address owner is actually wealthy so...

phoe-krk 6y ago
I have noticed that some of those programs also work for other countries' TLDs, for instance, .edu.pl for Poland.
- whereistimbo 6y ago
  TIL. Still there are only 17 countries with .edu as second level domain. Unfortunately Indonesia doesn't have .edu second level domain, I'm stuck with .ac.id
  - OJFord 6y ago
    In the UK we use .ac.uk, it was (when I was a student) my experience that places that say '.edu discount' generally also accepted my '.ac.uk' - I only recall one that didn't, and that was resolved after a support email. I wonder if .edu is more strictly controlled in America though, because I still have an alumni.*.ac.uk address, which presumably anyone with automated handling of it would still accept. (Unless I suppose that's also common over there and they filter it out, and hope for no Mr Al Umnus from Scunthorpe.)
  - rswail 6y ago
    ac stands for academic so it has the same function as a 2LD as edu.
- ajdlinux 6y ago
  In my experience as an Australian, if a company sells its product globally and doesn't have complicated per-country sales channels then they usually offer their student discounts program to more than just US students.
PeterisP 6y ago
Many companies extend the same offer to non-US educational institutions by a domain list. For example, here's the JetBrains repository - https://github.com/JetBrains/swot https://github.com/JetBrains/swot - of worldwide educational institution domains that they are using for validation of their educational licenses; a smaller organization can probably piggyback off of it or a similar list instead of maintaining their own.
marban 6y ago
You don't need to be wealthy to buy a .edu for $4.99 on eBay...

phoe-krk 6y ago

I have noticed that some of those programs also work for other countries' TLDs, for instance, .edu.pl for Poland.

whereistimbo 6y ago
TIL. Still there are only 17 countries with .edu as second level domain. Unfortunately Indonesia doesn't have .edu second level domain, I'm stuck with .ac.id
- OJFord 6y ago
  In the UK we use .ac.uk, it was (when I was a student) my experience that places that say '.edu discount' generally also accepted my '.ac.uk' - I only recall one that didn't, and that was resolved after a support email. I wonder if .edu is more strictly controlled in America though, because I still have an alumni.*.ac.uk address, which presumably anyone with automated handling of it would still accept. (Unless I suppose that's also common over there and they filter it out, and hope for no Mr Al Umnus from Scunthorpe.)
- rswail 6y ago
  ac stands for academic so it has the same function as a 2LD as edu.
ajdlinux 6y ago
In my experience as an Australian, if a company sells its product globally and doesn't have complicated per-country sales channels then they usually offer their student discounts program to more than just US students.

PeterisP 6y ago

Many companies extend the same offer to non-US educational institutions by a domain list. For example, here's the JetBrains repository - https://github.com/JetBrains/swot https://github.com/JetBrains/swot - of worldwide educational institution domains that they are using for validation of their educational licenses; a smaller organization can probably piggyback off of it or a similar list instead of maintaining their own.

marban 6y ago

You don't need to be wealthy to buy a .edu for $4.99 on eBay...