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I hosted a little file sharing utility at fy.lc that recently vanished from the internet. I guess I always suspected this was a possibility given the general jankiness of nic.lc but it's still pretty disappointing. Nobody should run anything serious on a ccTLD.
Except of course if they’re from the country in question, in which case it carries extra end-user trust.
I hosted a little file sharing utility at fy.lc that recently vanished from the internet. I guess I always suspected this was a possibility given the general jankiness of nic.lc but it's still pretty disappointing. Nobody should run anything serious on a ccTLD.
> Nobody should run anything serious on a ccTLD. Except of course if they’re from the country in question, in which case it carries extra end-user trust.
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Then https://www.opennic.org is for you! Welcome friend!
That's really cool, but none of the listed projects seem to work (e.g. grep.geek, post.uu, be.libre, opennic.chan...). Am I missing something? Do I have to do something special to access these domains?
A nice, spammy scare piece. The bit about the UK somehow losing its permanent seat on the UN Security Council over Diego Garcia was a wee bit off. The UN’s charter would have to be changed to change the permanent members of the Security Council. Those same permanent members can veto any such proposed change. They can’t be forced out without rupturing things to the point of just creating a separate UN 2.0 excluding th…
The drop in traffic might have been a result of the fact that they liquidated all of their US stores...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Nobody should run anything serious on a ccTLD. Except of course if they’re from the country in question, in which case it carries extra end-user trust.
I'd trust a .com over a .lc even in Saint Lucia, ymmv
.com is often considered the “American” TLD, and you want to go to your local store, with local offers, prices and which speaks your language.
.com often effectively means you need to import and pay customs, and nobody wants that.
Not having an appropriate ccTLD will be major drawback in lots of markets. Nobody serious about their business is going to risk that.
It seems that there is an easy solution here that is being overlooked. Allow any country to nominate their ccTLD for conversion to gTLD, and make that automatic when a country dissolves. Hold an auction for the gTLD for anyone who qualifies under the existing gTLD rules, and the highest bidder gets to run the gTLD. The proceeds of the auction go to the country that owned the ccTLD. A lot of small countries would prob…
It seems that there is an easy solution here that is being overlooked. Allow any country to nominate their ccTLD for conversion to gTLD, and make that automatic when a country dissolves. Hold an auction for the gTLD for anyone who qualifies under the existing gTLD rules, and the highest bidder gets to run the gTLD. The proceeds of the auction go to the country that owned the ccTLD. A lot of small countries would prob…
This works until the BIOT becomes part of Mauritius and the eastern part of Ohio declare sovereignty under the name Inner Ohio and get the ISO code IO :)
Also, you can't reuse ccTLDs.
But how to pay millions of dollars for a reasonable short name if you start a new business?
A nice, spammy scare piece. The bit about the UK somehow losing its permanent seat on the UN Security Council over Diego Garcia was a wee bit off. The UN’s charter would have to be changed to change the permanent members of the Security Council. Those same permanent members can veto any such proposed change. They can’t be forced out without rupturing things to the point of just creating a separate UN 2.0 excluding th…