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The whole TLD system is kind of broken and has been for decades, ever since companies starting buying the .net and .org versions of their domain names to go alo
by AdamH12113 3y ago
The whole TLD system is kind of broken and has been for decades, ever since companies starting buying the .net and .org versions of their domain names to go along with the (then) all-important .com. The TLDs were originally designed as a taxonomy of organization types. There was a fair bit of discussion about dropping TLDs altogether after the internet went mainstream and .com domain names became much scarcer, but there never seemed to be enough agreement to make it happen.
It's interesting to think about how much of the old internet and its protocols were built around the assumption that internet-capable computers and (especially) networks were owned and tightly-administered by institutions, not individuals.
- Terr_ 3y agoIf I had my druthers, top level domains would exclusively be for sovereign legal jurisdictions. (And maybe EU or UN.) That way it would at least match all the indirect rules imposed by those jurisdictions, such as treaties over conflicting trademarks, and it would be clear which courts should get involved in any lawsuits or appeals, etc. It's kind of a Conway's Law thing: The system will suck the least when the code-organization is aligned to the group-entities. P.S.: Sure, if you launched a new global company you'd want to register lots of different domains, but that's already true anyway.
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