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That's totally not the same thing though. Vint Cerf wasn't telling me I was but a mere footnote compared to his invention of TCP/IP. He thought gTLDs were activ
by jart 4y ago
That's totally not the same thing though. Vint Cerf wasn't telling me I was but a mere footnote compared to his invention of TCP/IP. He thought gTLDs were actively harming the Internet.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoWait. Could you elaborate on this? What was his argument for that statement: "He thought gTLDs were actively harming the Internet." I might be missing something.
- javajosh 4y agoI will hazard a guess. Cerf liked the top-level organization scheme com/org/edu because he worked hard on it and it carries meaningful information about the owner of the domain. E.g. identifies the domain-owner as either a for-profit corp, a non-profit org, or a school. By contrast new tlds like "app" or "website" imply absolutely nothing about the domain or the person/org that owns it. So there's a net loss in meaning. Effectively the domain variability has leaked into the tld. It's a worthy discussion for HN.
- arbitrage 4y agoThe .com and .org namespace has been diluted in meaning for decades. You can make no useful inference about the owner of a .com or a .org domain name. They literally signify nothing anymore.
- bombcar 4y agoOriginally the hierarchy was supposed to be much more defined. But domains are so cheap nobody bothers. You see it a bit in .gov and .edu where subdomains are actually delegated somewhat sometimes.
- tomcam 4y agoLove your speculation, agree it would make a wonderful discussion here.
- JohnJamesRambo 4y agoDo you think he is right or wrong about gTLDs?
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- jart 4y agoMy executables end with .com and my website ends with .lol so I disagree with him, even though he's right. My work doesn't target consumers though. What matters is that he's not just speaking only for himself and I would have liked his views to have carried more weight in ICANN's vision. Perhaps they would have addressed the domainer problem rather than simply making new digital land where the same problems would once again take root.
- esperent 4y agoIf I was to share a piece of advice here it would be "even the smartest people in the world are wrong a lot of the time". There's never a case where you should accept conferred wisdom uncritically, no matter how much you respect a person or what else they created.