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How is geography relevant on the internet? National TLDs have the exact same problem as organization-type TLDs - i.e. artificial scarcity - but the information
by Gormo 14y ago
How is geography relevant on the internet? National TLDs have the exact same problem as organization-type TLDs - i.e. artificial scarcity - but the information that they convey is often less relevant than the prevailing system.
Why not relatively open expansion of TLDs? Why does there need to be a controversy every time someone proposes a new TLD?
- pbhjpbhj 14y ago>how is geography relevant on the internet? // Legal jurisdiction, delivery of goods, payment/receipt of money, ...
- freehunter 14y agoLike pbhjpbhj mentioned, when I'm looking at a product being sold on a .co.uk domain, I know I likely won't be able to buy it. If I'm on amazon.co.uk, I know they won't sell to me. If I'm on amazon.co.de, I know the site is in German, prices are in Euro, their books will be auf Deutsche, and when I click buy, they'll likely redirect me to the .com domain where I can't buy the product in German language. When I'm looking at a service being sold on a .jp domain, I know I likely won't be able to access that service. taxis-for-hire.co.jp probably won't pick me up from the airport in Chicago. Non-novelty country code TLDs are a good way to indicate you are doing business exclusively in that country. .com is a good catch-all, the problem with .com is that it's difficult to tell if it's a US-specific product/service or a general purpose domain.
- tbirdz 14y agoIf I'm on amazon.co.uk, I know they won't sell to me. I'm in the USA and I have bought things from the other amazons before, from amazon japan and amazon uk.
- freehunter 14y agoInteresting. I was trying to buy a book in German from Amazon DE, and with my US account they would not let me buy it. Maybe I need a German account as well.