Gregory's Server@rust giving countries ownership of TLDs seems like a dumb idea. I guess it's nice that the current government of Serbia supports you using .rs. Hopefully they stay in power, for your benefit.
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 @leeloo @craftyguy How about me? I can be trusted with control over a ccTLD or three. I just need to learn how this DNS thingy works first, then I'm all set. @leeloo @craftyguy @rust ICANN, but there shouldn't be country code TLDs in the first place because countries are extremely temporary structures and can collapse at any time, and the recognition of some is a highly political statement? Language code TLDs would've worked just fine @leeloo @craftyguy @rust How long an "average country" lasts is fully irrelevant to the point. Public organizations are a horrible justification for country TLDs, .gov exists and it should be opened to non-US entities. The only actual unique purpose country TLDs serve is providing more local and unique domains and language code TLDs do that far better while actually communicating something about the website. Multi-language blogs already have .blog, commercial websites have .com  @lunarna @craftyguy @rust @craftyguy yeah because random for-profit companies in random countries are generally much better at serving the public interest than publicly owned infrastructure with democratic oversight.   @craftyguy @rust As the alternative would be to give either the US government, or whoever can pay the most money, or whoever is chosen by people originally set up by the US DoD and then spin off, control of top level domains, it doesn't seem so bad to me. @craftyguy @rust You don't know nothing about who's in power in Serbia at the moment, do you? @craftyguy @rust I think it's a perfectly reasonable choice that TLDs that are literally the ISO country code of a country should be controlled (directly or otherwise) by that country's government. If you don't like it, there are many non-country TLDs to choose from.  @craftyguy You erroneously assume that RNIDS is a governmental entity. It is not. https://www.rnids.rs/en/conference-co-founders/co-founders-and-authorised-representatives |
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If not countries, who should have control of counntry-TLDs?
Projects that don't want to be under a country-TLD can use a different TLD.