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.edu and .gov mean something.

• quesera 5y ago
  There are some legacy registrations for .edu that are held by individuals for their own use. I am unaware of any similar (ab)use of .gov or .mil, however. And .org never ever meant anything at all.
  • detaro 5y ago
    A well-known glaring exception with .edu is Academia.edu, which is a commercial paper repository/"social network".
    • lwf 5y ago
      Wow, I didn't realise it was this old: > The URL had been registered back in 1999, before 2001 regulations restricted the “.edu” designation to accredited higher educational institutions. “[D]espite its misleading top level domain,” noted Kathleen Fitzpatrick (2015), head of scholarly communication at the Modern Language Association, “Academia.edu is not an educationally-affiliated organization, but a dot-com.” Like other prior domain filings, Academia.edu was grandfathered in, granting the startup a time-sealed patina of nonprofit credibility https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305117696523 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305117696523
    • astura 5y ago
      That's because the domain name "Academia.edu" was registered in 1999 and the current restrictions on ".edu" TLD were put in place in 2001. .mil and .gov have always been controlled by the US government,.and since 2013 local governments in the US may register a .gov domain.