On Oct 19, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ? > You forgot .MIL , this one will be even more fun to change...
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