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Leeloo

@craftyguy @rust
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.

22 March at 17:19 | Wall-to-wall | Open on techhub.social
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wizzwizz4

@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.

22 March at 17:28 | Open on fosstodon.org
Luna :anarchy:

@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

22 March at 19:04 | Open on catcatnya.com
Leeloo

@lunarna @craftyguy @rust
Most countries last far longer than any web site. Country TLDs are good for when you need an official website and not a nigerian scam site, because the country TLD usually doesn't allow those (never mind that at least here in Denmark, it has become normal to put official websites on some obvious scam domain).

What are language code domains good for? Large websites usually have a language switch, and blogs can be in a mix of English and the bloggers native language.

@lunarna @craftyguy @rust
Most countries last far longer than any web site. Country TLDs are good for when you need an official website and not a nigerian scam site, because the country TLD usually doesn't allow those (never mind that at least here in Denmark, it has become normal to put official websites on some obvious scam domain).

22 March at 21:29 | Open on techhub.social
Luna :anarchy:

@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

22 March at 21:44 | Open on catcatnya.com
Leeloo

@lunarna @craftyguy @rust
That makes no sense. How would opening .gov to more countries help me ensure that I'm connecting to a website following Danish law rather than one in some banana republic that barely has a law?

23 March at 2:12 | Open on techhub.social
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