On Oct 19, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
But to make a long story short, and my memory's perhaps a bit rusty now, but my recollection is that shorter URL's looked nicer and there was significant money to be had running the registry, so there was some heavy lobbying against retiring .GOV in favor of .FED.US (and other .US locality domains). [snip]
The same problem exists with .EDU capriciously adopting new criteria that excludes any non-US-based institutions from being eligible. I believe the major issue is that if a TLD is in the global namespace, then it should NOT be allowed to restrict registrations based on country; the internet is global and .GOV and .EDU are in Global Namespace.
So then, why aren't .EDU and .GOV just allowed to continue to exist but a community decision made to require whichever registry will be contracted to manage .GOV to accept registrations from _all_ government entities regardless of nationality ?
You forgot .MIL , this one will be even more fun to change...