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Post by musicale »

kccqzy wrote: post #46
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/

Yeah of course adding the extra dot will work. The dot at the end simply means do not try to append the local search domain. Interestingly bad “security” software will often block domains without the trailing dot but permit the one with the trailing dot. The problem of having two hierarchies in opposite directions means that it is advantageous to store it while reversing one of the hierarchies. I think the earliest G…

Accurate scare quotes on "security" software. Apparently it is necessary for "compliance" with standardized requirements for ineffective security.

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Post by sevenseacat »

decimalenough wrote: post #28
jjmarr wrote: post #2

Subdivided geographic TLDs are still common in Ontario govts, such as gov.on.ca [1] and tdsb.on.ca for Toronto schools.[2] Both are still in common use. [1] https://kagi.com/search?q=site%3Agov.on.ca&r=ca&sh=lUDz_I8Uq... [2] https://kagi.com/search?q=site%3ATDSB.on.ca&r=ca&sh=jysEnEgZ...

Australia does the same for organizations regulated at the state level, like schools. However, while all other states/territories do $SCHOOL.$STATE.edu.au: https://www.abbotsfordps.vic.edu.au/ https://southperthps.wa.edu.au/ https://perthprimary.education.tas.edu.au/ https://nthadelaideps.sa.edu.au/ https://www.nightcliffprimary.nt.edu.au/ https://www.forrestps.act.edu.au/ NSW uses $SCHOOL.schools.nsw.gov.au: https:/…

When I was at university, we had http://cs.mu.oz.au (Computer Science, at University of Melbourne). That domain name has stuck in my head, even though it isn't in use anymore.

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Post by dragonwriter »

Scoundreller wrote: post #17
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 wonder if some anti-“west” military alliances are eligible to get their own .int just like nato.int

They would, but even orgs that have historically had .int domains tend to move off them to either their own TLD (like CERN moving to .cern) or to other gTLDs (like the Commonwealth of Nations from commonwealth.int to commonwealth.org.) Ironically, NATO was using .nato briefly in 1990 before moving to .nato.int

So, CSTO using csto.org rather than csto.int is probably just keeping up with the times, not failing to get an .int

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