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.com and .net hardly seem as though they should be subject to US ownership & authority. .us sure, knock yourself out. It would still be weird even if it were t
by ahelwer 6y ago
.com and .net hardly seem as though they should be subject to US ownership & authority. .us sure, knock yourself out.
It would still be weird even if it were the .us TLD though. State censorship is state censorship.
- djsumdog 6y ago.com is managed by VeriSign, a US company. For better or worse, that is the world we live in. But to be honest, with all the new TLDs, there's no longer anything really special about the .com/net/org domains anymore.
- DeonPenny 6y ago.com and .net have always been all but .us. Since .us didn't exist when the web was created
- tialaramex 6y agoTim's toy hypermedia system (the "World Wide Web") is from 1990, but the US top level domain was created in 1985 and is one of the first ccTLDs.