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.com is owned by a single company(and other top level domains owned by other companies), why shouldn't more companies own other top level domains? Also, in reg

.com is owned by a single company(and other top level domains owned by other companies), why shouldn't more companies own other top level domains? Also, in regards to gp, saying .com is for all commercial companies is the equivalent of saying all commercial companies have to be in business with Verisign.

zokier 12y ago
> .com is owned by a single company(and other top level domains owned by other companies), why shouldn't more companies own other top level domains? I'd be for abolising .com (and other gtlds) too.
- damon_c 12y ago
  That seems like it could be a little messy... are you sure? Also, if you think about what the world might be like 50 years from now, ".com" and ".org" might be remnants of the past we remember fondly. They will likely become less important on their own.
  - Crito 12y ago
    Since he specifically called out gtld's, I suspect he is a fan of cctld's. The only real problem as far as I see it with cctlds is that it reinforces the notion that you must pick a country to be subservient to, but you aren't really escaping that by using gtlds..
    - zokier 12y ago
      Yes, I'm a fan on cctlds. Only exception I'd be willing to accept might be .int for organizations like UN that are truly outside any country. Like it or not, everyone else is subject to some country or another.
forgottenpass 12y ago
.com is owned by a single company(and other top level domains owned by other companies), why shouldn't more companies own other top level domains? The fact single companies manage TLDs doesn't factor into my thought process on how we should manage the TLD namespace. It sounds like your problem is really with Verisign et al., perhaps the fight you're looking for is how individual gTLDs are managed in the first place, not assuming that part of the model is fixed and exploding the namespace in some bizarro business fairness.
- genericuser 12y ago
  I would simply like to see more companies competing in the space of providing registration of domains for their top level domain than currently exist. As far as I am concerned I see no reason not to have thousands or millions of top level domains. I am a believer that with ample time and more options we will see the false assumption that everything is a .com become less widespread. (Although this belief is largely based on wishful thinking, I will admit)

zokier 12y ago

> .com is owned by a single company(and other top level domains owned by other companies), why shouldn't more companies own other top level domains? I'd be for abolising .com (and other gtlds) too.

damon_c 12y ago
That seems like it could be a little messy... are you sure? Also, if you think about what the world might be like 50 years from now, ".com" and ".org" might be remnants of the past we remember fondly. They will likely become less important on their own.
- Crito 12y ago
  Since he specifically called out gtld's, I suspect he is a fan of cctld's. The only real problem as far as I see it with cctlds is that it reinforces the notion that you must pick a country to be subservient to, but you aren't really escaping that by using gtlds..
  - zokier 12y ago
    Yes, I'm a fan on cctlds. Only exception I'd be willing to accept might be .int for organizations like UN that are truly outside any country. Like it or not, everyone else is subject to some country or another.

forgottenpass 12y ago

.com is owned by a single company(and other top level domains owned by other companies), why shouldn't more companies own other top level domains? The fact single companies manage TLDs doesn't factor into my thought process on how we should manage the TLD namespace. It sounds like your problem is really with Verisign et al., perhaps the fight you're looking for is how individual gTLDs are managed in the first place, not assuming that part of the model is fixed and exploding the namespace in some bizarro business fairness.

genericuser 12y ago
I would simply like to see more companies competing in the space of providing registration of domains for their top level domain than currently exist. As far as I am concerned I see no reason not to have thousands or millions of top level domains. I am a believer that with ample time and more options we will see the false assumption that everything is a .com become less widespread. (Although this belief is largely based on wishful thinking, I will admit)