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WHO Bid To Regulate Health Sites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-this-be-implemented dept.

Andy Smith writes "This BBC story reports on efforts by the World Health Organisation [?] to improve the quality of health-related web sites. They want a new TLD -- .health -- to be introduced. All .health sites would then be regulated by the WHO. Here's the press release, which predicts that 'dot health could soon be as well known as dot com'." It's quite an issue - do you want to be able to "trust" the health sites, assuming that's what regulation means, or do you worry more about the innovation of the sites being quashed by an organization?

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  1. Subdomains by redhog · · Score: 5

    Whst's wrong with .health.com? Why can't they just create a subdomain? Why do they need a topplevel domain? The system was intended to be hierarchical, not flat. And health-industries are industries, aren't they? Should be under .com!

    Btw, someone at some moment suggested here on /. that a good idea might be to have the price on domains raise with the numbers of domains an organisation wants - that way, the system would force hierarchy. I like the idea, but it is to easy to work around - just have an employee register the domain name on him/her, or a daughter-company...

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    1. Re:Subdomains by Baki · · Score: 5

      Indeed. If the WHO wants to regulate and certify, than that information could use who.org and anything below it.

      Creating .health would set a precenende for hundreds and hunderds of toplevel domains.