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Yes, Japan does the same with .co.jp but also .ne.jp, ac.jp, etc.

by eloisant 2mo ago

adw 2mo ago
There are many examples; k12.<state>.us is another.
- marcosdumay 2mo ago
  It is (or was for a long time, IDK) a strongly recommended practice from ICANN. I imagine nearly all countries to do that.
  - dhosek 2mo ago
    There end up being some weird edge cases where there are some countries which have both the equivalent of .co.uk but also allow registrations directly under the two-letter country code as well. .mx is one such case where most business are, e.g., costco.com.mx, but it’s also possible to register directly under .mx as well so Toyota Mexico is toyota.mx and not toyota.com.mx (the latter is registered, and ostensibly to Toyota, but the whois and nslookup records give very different results and the website doesn’t load when I try to visit it).
    - justincormack 2mo ago
      uk is one example - they opened up x.uk later, and gave x.co.uk registrations first dibs.
    - dgoldstein0 2mo ago
      This isn't so bad as .com.mx and .mx should be on the public suffix list then. But letting arbitrary customers take arbitrary 3 level domains, and others take 2 level domains, seems like a mistake as it's not very reasonable for every 3LD customer to put the 2LD on the public suffix list, but mixing 3LD and 2LD registrations means you can't public suffix *.name. Seems the whole idea of having both was always misguided.
- eloisant 2mo ago
  Except nobody uses the .us tld, but pretty much every every Japanese company is on a .co.jp
  - adw 2mo ago
    Schools use it!
    - toast0 2mo ago
      Based on my small sample of schools, all of the ones that were using locality based names under ca.us have migrated elsewhere, including to 2nd level domains under .us.
  - jomar 2mo ago
    > Except nobody uses the .us tld This is a bug, not a feature.
  - SenHeng 2mo ago
    It used to be that only Japanese corporations could register a .co.jp while anyone else anywhere could register for a .jp. So I had several .jp domains registered through Gandi.net. The issue is that .jp registered outside of a few Japanese registrars are legally not allowed to offer Whois privacy.
  - ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
    The .us domain should’ve been universally useful for state and municipal governments, but most of those began registering directly under .gov, and not even in an orderly hierarchy under .st.gov But that was simply the easiest way to market your website as a trusted government entity. And now nobody has ever heard of .us domains in active use.
    - ocdtrekkie 2mo ago
      .us was primarily a hierarchy structure which in practice made confusing and hard to remember domain names, whereas .gov addresses hand out single domains which are generally easy to remember.

Yes, Japan does the same with .co.jp but also .ne.jp, ac.jp, etc.

adw 2mo ago

There are many examples; k12.<state>.us is another.

marcosdumay 2mo ago
It is (or was for a long time, IDK) a strongly recommended practice from ICANN. I imagine nearly all countries to do that.
- dhosek 2mo ago
  There end up being some weird edge cases where there are some countries which have both the equivalent of .co.uk but also allow registrations directly under the two-letter country code as well. .mx is one such case where most business are, e.g., costco.com.mx, but it’s also possible to register directly under .mx as well so Toyota Mexico is toyota.mx and not toyota.com.mx (the latter is registered, and ostensibly to Toyota, but the whois and nslookup records give very different results and the website doesn’t load when I try to visit it).
  - justincormack 2mo ago
    uk is one example - they opened up x.uk later, and gave x.co.uk registrations first dibs.
  - dgoldstein0 2mo ago
    This isn't so bad as .com.mx and .mx should be on the public suffix list then. But letting arbitrary customers take arbitrary 3 level domains, and others take 2 level domains, seems like a mistake as it's not very reasonable for every 3LD customer to put the 2LD on the public suffix list, but mixing 3LD and 2LD registrations means you can't public suffix *.name. Seems the whole idea of having both was always misguided.
eloisant 2mo ago
Except nobody uses the .us tld, but pretty much every every Japanese company is on a .co.jp
- adw 2mo ago
  Schools use it!
  - toast0 2mo ago
    Based on my small sample of schools, all of the ones that were using locality based names under ca.us have migrated elsewhere, including to 2nd level domains under .us.
- jomar 2mo ago
  > Except nobody uses the .us tld This is a bug, not a feature.
- SenHeng 2mo ago
  It used to be that only Japanese corporations could register a .co.jp while anyone else anywhere could register for a .jp. So I had several .jp domains registered through Gandi.net. The issue is that .jp registered outside of a few Japanese registrars are legally not allowed to offer Whois privacy.
- ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
  The .us domain should’ve been universally useful for state and municipal governments, but most of those began registering directly under .gov, and not even in an orderly hierarchy under .st.gov But that was simply the easiest way to market your website as a trusted government entity. And now nobody has ever heard of .us domains in active use.
  - ocdtrekkie 2mo ago
    .us was primarily a hierarchy structure which in practice made confusing and hard to remember domain names, whereas .gov addresses hand out single domains which are generally easy to remember.