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Re: Memories of .us

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Post by dghf »

> ccTLDs reflect the ISO country codes of each country, and are intended for use by those countries, while gTLDs are arbitrary and reflect the fact that DNS was designed in the US. The ".gov" gTLD, for example, is for use by the US government, while the UK is stuck with ".gov.uk".

Fun fact, the UK's ISO country code is not actually "uk", but "gb". IIRC, ".uk" was grandfathered in (from JANET?) as an exception: ".gb" officially existed for a while in parallel, but no one ever used it and I think it's now defunct.

Re: Memories of .us

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Post by jooize »

dhosek wrote: post #36
musicale wrote: post #34

> "gatech.edu" really should be written as "gatech.edu." https://www.gatech.edu./ does seem to work for me. It is interesting that URLs often contain two hierarchies in opposite directions: https://something.myorg.org/something/more/specific/

Indeed, back in the 90s I remember trying to decide whether to do foo.bar.com or bar.com/foo for various subsites of my main domain back then.

What is your conclusion?

Re: Memories of .us

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Post by jdofaz »

I had one but the "Delegated Manager" was a local dsl isp that went out of business and I lost the ability to update the name servers for it

Re: Memories of .us

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Post by [deleted] »

kraptv wrote: post #5

I love the old interent. I'll confess I have three locality domains and they are wonderful. I'll confess I have successfully registered a locality domain this year (2025) and it was a little bit fun to go through the weird hoops to get this new domain registered. I'm also working on/helping out a registrar whose owned died and his widow is resolving what to do with the non-profit. A related quaint couple of blogs[1][…

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Re: Memories of .us

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Post by walletdrainer »

ViscountPenguin wrote: post #42
Symbiote wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_with_.in... I don't see why a non-western military alliance wouldn't be eligible, so long as the meet the criteria — treaty registered with the UN etc.

Even if they dejure meet the requirements, I suspect that IANA would be under heavy political pressure to deny the claim.

I suspect that exactly no-one cares about .int domains

Re: Memories of .us

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Post by ndiddy »

johnplatte wrote: post #6

.su is available for registration, I'm not sure what the "in a limited way" is about. In Russia it's used to communicate old-schoolness, approximately.

Outside Russia it’s limited to renewals of existing domains due to sanctions. I believe ICANN is trying to eliminate the domain entirely due to it being obsolete, although I don’t know if a formal timeframe has been established for that yet.

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Post by 6031769 »

johnplatte wrote: post #6

.su is available for registration, I'm not sure what the "in a limited way" is about. In Russia it's used to communicate old-schoolness, approximately.

Outside Russia it's used to communicate spamming scumbaggery and is almost universally blackholed.

Re: Memories of .us

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Post by 6031769 »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #43
stephen_g wrote: post #16

It did always make me really annoyed they didn’t deprecate .gov, .edu and .mil and transition to moving those under .us (as .gov.us, .edu.us and .mil.us). Having them as basically US-only just reeks of American exceptionalism which most of the world finds very distasteful.

I don't think there's any reason to deprecate .edu and move it under the us TLD. Nothing about .edu is US-specific, unlike gov and mil. You could perfectly reasonably have oxford.edu, etc.

They already have it and it redirects to the real Oxford site.

Re: Memories of .us

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Post by kidmin »

Some minor/trivial corrections:

- gTLD stands for "generic TLD"[1], not a short form of global, comes from their "generic" usage. Both two categories of TLDs are in the domain namespace which is globally resolvable.

- Almost all of two-letter ASCII ccTLDs reflect the ISO country codes, from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, but there are a few exceptions: the United Kingdom (GB) has ".uk"[2], Ascension Island (now part of SH) has ".ac", etc. (Yes, there are more non-ASCII ccTLDs: .新加坡, .УКР, etc.)

If you want to briefly take a look at how TLD registries structure their second/third level such as "k12.or.us" or "chiyoda.tokyo.jp", see "ICANN DOMAINS" section of the public suffix list[3] (note: it is not complete)

[1] https://icannwiki.org/Generic_Top-level_Domain

[2] https://cddo.blog.gov.uk/2022/11/15/is-it-time-to-retire-the...

[3] https://publicsuffix.org/

Re: Memories of .us

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Post by dhosek »

jooize wrote: post #62
dhosek wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, back in the 90s I remember trying to decide whether to do foo.bar.com or bar.com/foo for various subsites of my main domain back then.

What is your conclusion?

It’s thirty years later, so things have changed, but now I would be inclined to only use a different subdomain if it required a different server.
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