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So you trust the Swedish government?
If you have a thought to share, do so with my blessing. A one-liner rhetorical question like this works fairly well in conversation but not as well in a threaded forum where people are looking for a more compact expression of ideas.
Also, I didn't remember wired.com comments being such a cesspool...
I recently registered a new domain name for a side project, http://recursiveuniver.se . Catchy domain names like this are a little passé, but I’m steering clear of .com indefinitely.
To second the comment that itmag made, you are simply replacing one country with another. Recall the debacles that happened among the cute .ly TLDs when Libya decided that Islamic law applied to sites like vb.ly. http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-b...
If people sit on their hands and say, “It’s all the same really, no point in doing anything,” then nothing will ever change. You have to vote a certain way, lobby, speak out, protest, write blog posts, and yes, even move domains from one place to a seemingly similar other place if you want to make the world a better place.
I recently registered a new domain name for a side project, http://recursiveuniver.se . Catchy domain names like this are a little passé, but I’m steering clear of .com indefinitely.
Why? Sounds like cutting your nose to spite your face.
If you had a store to open and all the customers were on "K" street would you not go there because "K" street had a .0001 chance of crime vs. a street with .000000001 chance of crime.
Is there rationality in your decision (for your particular purpose) or are you just protesting against what you see as a potential slippery slope?
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If you have a thought to share, do so with my blessing. A one-liner rhetorical question like this works fairly well in conversation but not as well in a threaded forum where people are looking for a more compact expression of ideas.
There is nothing rhetorical about their question. You are solving the possible US domain confiscation problem by substituting a possible Swedish domain confiscation problem.
I recently registered a new domain name for a side project, http://recursiveuniver.se . Catchy domain names like this are a little passé, but I’m steering clear of .com indefinitely.
"I’m steering clear of .com indefinitely." Why? Sounds like cutting your nose to spite your face. If you had a store to open and all the customers were on "K" street would you not go there because "K" street had a .0001 chance of crime vs. a street with .000000001 chance of crime. Is there rationality in your decision (for your particular purpose) or are you just protesting against what you see as a potential slipper…
But until I have that store, I needn’t worry about it. So I don’t see any irrationality here whatsoever.
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To second the comment that itmag made, you are simply replacing one country with another. Recall the debacles that happened among the cute .ly TLDs when Libya decided that Islamic law applied to sites like vb.ly. http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-b...
TLDs are a marketplace. The more customers move around, the larger the economic force exerting influence on countries to behave a certain way. Moving domains by itself is not enough, but it’s a step I’ve taken. If people sit on their hands and say, “It’s all the same really, no point in doing anything,” then nothing will ever change. You have to vote a certain way, lobby, speak out, protest, write blog posts, and yes…
However the point of highlight territorial control of TLDs is just to make it clear that there is such a control that can be flippantly exercised. Which itself argues in favour of alternative DNS systems that are not subject to such anachronistic territorial control. Such an argument can't even begin if people think they can avoid the whole .com thing by moving to a different tld.
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So you trust the Swedish government?
By comparison i would...also they do make great chocolate? Whats not to like... I've registered a few .it's (Italy) and still maintain a bunch of .com.au's. I dont know, the internet is starting to scare me...maybe avoiding .com isnt a terrible idea, but i have no idea how the others would behave. Likely they wouldn't be much better... I feel like we're in the 60's of the Internet and soon 'the man' is going to come…
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So you trust the Swedish government?
If you have a thought to share, do so with my blessing. A one-liner rhetorical question like this works fairly well in conversation but not as well in a threaded forum where people are looking for a more compact expression of ideas.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
TLDs are a marketplace. The more customers move around, the larger the economic force exerting influence on countries to behave a certain way. Moving domains by itself is not enough, but it’s a step I’ve taken. If people sit on their hands and say, “It’s all the same really, no point in doing anything,” then nothing will ever change. You have to vote a certain way, lobby, speak out, protest, write blog posts, and yes…
I don't think it's particularly that people are not doing anything. If you do think that Sweden will be a more responsible TLD controller, then that is a completely valid answer. Honestly I suspect they would be. However the point of highlight territorial control of TLDs is just to make it clear that there is such a control that can be flippantly exercised. Which itself argues in favour of alternative DNS systems tha…