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Yeah was sarcasm as it seems to be a really obvious thing to do. We do it in the UK with <councilname>.gov.uk (Not sure if it's actual delegation or just A re

• nativeit 2y ago
  We also do it in the US, although I feel like it was more common 20-years ago than it is now. For example, here in North Carolina, local school systems are typically “https://[county https://[county name]schools.k12.nc.us”
  • xp84 2y ago
    Yeah, our state did that kind of thing 20 years ago, but people get confused with more than x.y, because nobody ever taught anyone the concept that domains are a hierarchy and that periods have a specific role that’s different to slashes, hyphens, etc. So to 90% of people they couldn’t explain how “order.TacoBell.com” is different than “TacoBell.order.com” and as such wouldn’t ever remember what order “k12” “nc” and “us” might go in.
    • 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 2y ago
      Indeed, because the hierarchical nature of addressing conventions is a new thing.
      • xp84 2y ago
        Not sure if sarcastic or not. I think most people don’t think of a URL as an address in the way that a building has an address with a strict hierarchy of meaningful parts. I think people think of it more as an atomic long string of characters that the person who made the site labeled it with just by being the first to claim a certain URL.
• miki123211 2y ago
  You still have the "email can't get to Essex or Sussex" problem though.