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Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by Eumenes »

dwardu wrote: post #4
mym1990 wrote: post #3

Isn’t funding .uk and .us domains just as bad then, if you’re going by the amount of blood that is on a countries hands(regarding this particular piece of history, or all of it)?

The article is clearly a virtue signal. If the person developing the solution doesnt want to pay for the .io domain, then so be it. They don't have to get the morality into it.

exactly, the 'about' page, is all I needed to see

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Post by jihadjihad »

thih9 wrote: post #14

I wonder what’s going to happen with https://notion.so > Oof, sorry about this We chose .so when we were starting out (lots of other companies named Notion, and .so was available). Does it help that we own notion.com now? Automatic redirect for now, but we'll be switching to .com as soon as our engineering team has the bandwidth. Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/f6x9mk/why_the_so_d... (3 years ago)

I never really thought about the fact it was Somalia's TLD, or that it was (seemingly) a random choice because it happened to be available.

I always thought it was a play on shared objects (.so files).

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Post by internetter »

mym1990 wrote: post #3

Isn’t funding .uk and .us domains just as bad then, if you’re going by the amount of blood that is on a countries hands(regarding this particular piece of history, or all of it)?

coincidentally, as you wrote this comment an anti .us article began rising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38084516

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Post by column »

teddyh wrote: post #2

I would go further and say this: Never treat foreign ccTLD’s (two-letter domains) as anything you can just register and use a domain in. You should only ever use a ccTLD of your own country or region you actually have your main presence in. Your domain name is often your most secure key to your entire online identity, and you want that to be on as a secure legal footing as possible. Older discussion here: https://new…

what about .me ?

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Post by riffic »

jackcviers3 wrote: post #7

Here's a thought -- TLD's shouldn't be coupled to countries at all and should just be a string pointer to an IP address. But that's none of my business...

the IETF and ICANN have codified the underlying principles that tie ccTLDs to countries and your "here's a thought" won't do any good to change that.

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Post by mikeocool »

jackcviers3 wrote: post #7

Here's a thought -- TLD's shouldn't be coupled to countries at all and should just be a string pointer to an IP address. But that's none of my business...

Someone's gotta control the list of domains under a TLD and arbitrate who actually owns them and what their name servers are. When that's a private company they are subject to laws of the countries they operate in (and if it's international consortium, whatever country holds the most power within the consortium).

I imagine there are a few countries and companies that'd prefer the control of their internet presence not be strictly in the hands of the US government.

Though certainly there are folks who don't totally think through whose in control of their domain, see: https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/04/letter-ly-abrupt-ly-loses-...

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