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| This is a hack, and I don't like it. Registrations spilling over into other namespaces (in this case the ccTLD namespaces) are an effect of the common names
by pyre 14y ago
| This is a hack, and I don't like it.
Registrations spilling over into other namespaces (in this case the ccTLD namespaces) are an effect of the common namespaces (.org, .com, .net) becoming crowded by legitimate companies and people squatting on domains hoping for a huge payout. People don't want to type in sanford-and-sons-incorporated.com (or was it sanford-and-sons-inc.com or maybe sanford-sons.com?).
A legitimate use-case (that doesn't run under 'only for use in association with said country') is for allowing user-defined webpages on sub-domains, while not enabling access to cookies for the master domain (e.g. Github moving Pages to github.io vs github.com).