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So why not offer educational discounts with /edu\.[a-z]+/ ? That blocks the "privileged" US students, and lets the poorer countries off the hook. You're still d
by ulucs 6y ago
So why not offer educational discounts with /edu\.[a-z]+/ ? That blocks the "privileged" US students, and lets the poorer countries off the hook. You're still denying some opportunity to Taiwanese students with their .edu.tw addresses
EDIT: Not to mention how US schools have made strides in recruiting students from disadvantaged backgrounds, to the point that there were schools making their students fake a troubled past so they could get better admissions. Do those students' disadvantages just disappear because they are admitted?
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoI already give people in Taiwan a region-based discount. If I offer some kind of educational discounts for a future product, it definitely won't be based on email address or limited to people in official institutions. I'd also extend them to people in coding bootcamps, people in language schools and anybody who could credibly claim to be studying full-time, even if they were self-studying between jobs.
- PeterisP 6y agoA few countries put educational institutions behind a .edu. second level domain, the vast majority don't, their student emails are behind [universityname].tld without any .edu. involved.
- Already__Taken 6y agoour .UK ltd was owned and verified as an educational institution though if you bothered to look up the whois. Seems like we already built a system to handle this, not a tld