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The de-facto standard has become "if it doesn't have a country code TLD" it is in the US" (e.g. .net, .com etc). I think the majority of users understand this,
by sjtrny 14y ago
The de-facto standard has become "if it doesn't have a country code TLD" it is in the US" (e.g. .net, .com etc). I think the majority of users understand this, but it's not the way it should be. This is typical American insularity.
.edu should be a second level domain under country code TLDs. Here in Australia we use .edu.au. (e.g.: csu.edu.au, sydney.edu.au, unsw.edu.au etc). I don't think the TLD of .edu should be allowed unless you are an international education institution that is not tied physically to a single geographic location (e.g. Semester at Sea). Education institutions like to use short acronyms as their domain name and we would quickly experience a shortage of domain names if they all used the .edu TLD.
- eli 14y agoThat looks right, though of course it's a longer domain name. And second level domains are suboptimal in other ways: consider how much of a pain it is to figure out if site1.edu.au should be able to see cookies for site2.edu.au
- tedunangst 14y agoNobody made your country sign up for the American internet. You could have built your own...
- micheljansen 14y agoNot sure if trolling, but I assume you are aware that the Internet is the result of the work on lots of different projects in different countries (Tim Berners Lee worked at CERN in Switzerland, for example). There is no such thing as an "American Internet". There is however a North Korean internet called Kwangmyong, so people are building their own :P
- tbirdz 14y agoTim Berners Lee worked on the World Wide Web, not the internet. The internet was well in place beofre that: usenet, emails, resulting from the work of universities, darpa, etc.
- micheljansen 14y agoPoint taken, you are right that the internet predates the World Wide Web, but as you say that resulted from the work of universities, darpa etc. The "etc" in this case is not to be neglected. While DARPA was working on ARPANET, others were working on other precursors of the modern day Internet such as X.25, CYCLADES etc. that greatly contributed to the development of critical components such as TCP/IP. The Internet certainly owes a lot to American research and military funding, but there is no such thing as an "American Internet". Also, Usenet, email etc. are just as little "the Internet" as the world wide web is. They are all services that run on top of the Internet (the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite).
- Turing_Machine 14y agoX.25: completely separate protocol, nothing to do with TCP/IP or ARPANET. CYCLADES: completely separate protocol. Usenet, email: both predated the Internet and have nothing to do with it. Usenet ran over UUCP in its first incarnation, as did net mail.
- micheljansen 14y agoYes, X.25 is a completely separate protocol and so is CYCLADES, but they were both early packet switched networks that were influential in the development in the modern day Internet just like ARPANET. The Internet is not ARPANET, but of all the other "internets", it owes the most to ARPANET (built in the US, based off British design). Either way, there is no such thing as an "American Internet". There is just "the Internet".
- Turing_Machine 14y agoX.25 had nothing whatsoever to do with the ARPANET. It was a wildly different protocol in EVERY respect, and had NO influence on the Internet. At all. CYCLADES maybe had a bit of influence. X.25, nope. Packet switching itself was, of course, also invented in the United States. The ARPANET was not "based on British design", either. I realize that it bothers some people that the United States invented the Internet, but that's how it was. Sorry, and you're welcome.