On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Joe Greco <jgr...@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 ? In otherwords, rejection of the idea that a registry operating GTLD namespace can be allowed to impose overly exclusive "eligibility criteria" > ... JG -- -JH
