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Yeah I like knowing that .us.gov is always a government site, and .edu is always an educational site, and there are governing bodies enforcing that policy - but

Yeah I like knowing that .us.gov is always a government site, and .edu is always an educational site, and there are governing bodies enforcing that policy - but for the rest, biz and net and com and io are cute, but completely unnecessary. I’d love to just go to https://gmail https://gmail .

tok1 2y ago
This "trust aspect" implied (or assured?) by certain TLDs, or for the non-US world by second-level domains under ccTLDs, has been, interestingly, completely missed by several countries in the early Internet days, including fairly large ones like e.g. Germany: Annoyingly, you cannot identify a federal agency or otherwise "official" website by its domain--no trailing .gov.de or the likes, it will alway be "just" ending in .de, which makes things like phishing but also deception (by implying a certain level of authority but in fact selling services from a private entity) unnecessarily easy. This is contrary to other countries' .gov.uk, .gv.at, .edu.au, etc. Although created for different reasons, I think, the Public Suffix List gives some indication of which countries enforce such namespaces (or did), see https://publicsuffix.org/list/ https://publicsuffix.org/list/
- emilecantin 2y ago
  Here they do have such domains: .gc.ca for the Government of Canada, and .gouv.qc.ca for the Québec government. But annoyingly they both seem to be moving towards canada.ca and quebec.ca, respectively. There's even a whole .quebec TLD now that they could use, but no.
- taejo 2y ago
  There is bund.de for the federal government, with e.g. the interior ministry (Bundesministerium des Innern) at bmi.bund.de. But personenstandsrecht.de has nothing in the domain name or even the whois to indicate that it really is part of the interior ministry as it claims. There are links to it from bmi.bund.de so presumably...
_blk 2y ago
...and the rest of the world goes out empty. IMHO better: .gov.us, .edu.us
thaumasiotes 2y ago
> biz and net and com and io are cute, but completely unnecessary You don't like country TLDs? The USA should be the highest authority over every domain on the internet?

tok1 2y ago

This "trust aspect" implied (or assured?) by certain TLDs, or for the non-US world by second-level domains under ccTLDs, has been, interestingly, completely missed by several countries in the early Internet days, including fairly large ones like e.g. Germany: Annoyingly, you cannot identify a federal agency or otherwise "official" website by its domain--no trailing .gov.de or the likes, it will alway be "just" ending in .de, which makes things like phishing but also deception (by implying a certain level of authority but in fact selling services from a private entity) unnecessarily easy. This is contrary to other countries' .gov.uk, .gv.at, .edu.au, etc. Although created for different reasons, I think, the Public Suffix List gives some indication of which countries enforce such namespaces (or did), see https://publicsuffix.org/list/ https://publicsuffix.org/list/

emilecantin 2y ago
Here they do have such domains: .gc.ca for the Government of Canada, and .gouv.qc.ca for the Québec government. But annoyingly they both seem to be moving towards canada.ca and quebec.ca, respectively. There's even a whole .quebec TLD now that they could use, but no.
taejo 2y ago
There is bund.de for the federal government, with e.g. the interior ministry (Bundesministerium des Innern) at bmi.bund.de. But personenstandsrecht.de has nothing in the domain name or even the whois to indicate that it really is part of the interior ministry as it claims. There are links to it from bmi.bund.de so presumably...

_blk 2y ago

...and the rest of the world goes out empty. IMHO better: .gov.us, .edu.us

thaumasiotes 2y ago

> biz and net and com and io are cute, but completely unnecessary You don't like country TLDs? The USA should be the highest authority over every domain on the internet?