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.edu Expansion Blurs The Lines
klaricmn writes "Yahoo is reporting that the US Department of Commerce has decided to ease the regulations that govern the administration of .edu domain names. Read the official release on the Educause site. This change would allow a for-profit training institution such as "Dawn's Beauty School" to apply for a domain name in the same TLD as Harvard or Yale."
...or do I see a "Bubba's School for Making Porn" getting bubba-pr0n-school.edu right around the corner?
Then again, I think all schools of higher learning are for-profit. Some just know how to spend every bit of it so they don't actually have to report earning anything.
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Just great - the .edu domain had a clear, well-defined and widely-known purpose. And this is no longer the case...
.biz domain (like Australia) or even the .com. If there isn't a .biz TLD (I don't know, can'tbe bothered googling) then there should be. OR they should be forced to use something like .biz.us instead.
.us? No-one uses it because ... fuckit, it's been said so many times.
.edu domain shouldn't be used like this.
Why couldn't for-profit organisations like "Dawn's Beauty School" use the
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But WTF (WhyTF) should they use
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But things like "Dawn's Beauty School" aren't global - their services are only open to those in the US, so they shouldn't use a TLD. But that won't stop them anyway.
If they're for-profit, they should be considered a business or commercial entity, NOT an educational entity. For-profit and education aren't entirely disjoint (no philosophical debates, please) but the
BTW, sorry for going OT like that - must be the caffeinated <jitter> M&Ms or something <jitter>. Oh well, mod me OT if you must.
This sig intentionally left bla... dammit!
Who's got the whiteout?
In 1993 - 1994, they used to let secondary schools and in some cases even elementary schools and middle schools register .edu domains. If they open it up to vocational institutions, they also should open it up to the legitimate primary and secondary schools they took it away from before.
.edu and create a lot more subdomains for .edu to handle this kind of stuff.. Training institutions and other vocational schools can get a domain in .voc.edu after a certain amount of time or whatnot, other schools can register in elem.edu or somesuch..
Even better, they ought to move the k12 subdomain to
Almost all the major DNS-related shifts in the last few years (addition of more TLDs being the most recent previous change) have been pushed by the registrars, and are designed not to drive technical improvement, but to sell more domains.
All that happened is that someone figured out that instead of just having a little checkbox for "also buy foo.net and foo.org" when you register "foo.com", "foo.edU" could be added into the mix.
May we never see th
This change would allow a for-profit training institution such as "Dawn's Beauty School" to apply for a domain name in the same TLD as Harvard or Yale.
Damn! That doesn't help me! I run "Yale's Beauty College" and yale.edu is already taken!
Sue sue, I'm gonna sue somebody!
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
I admit that I'm not an networking engineer, so maybe there's some very complex technical issue I'm missing here. If so, enlighten me.
If the only argument against it are schools previously in the .edu domain feeling like their domain is cheapened, I say get over it. Unless there's obvious abuse like someone registering prindeton.com and trying to pass themselves off as being Princeton University, there's no issue - and that issue would seem entirely separate from which TLD the site is in.
If Dawn's Beauty School is teaching its students something ( edu cating them), then they would seem to have just as strong a claim to having an .edu domain - which to a lay person who hasn't read the docs on the origins/requirements of TLDs just means "school" - as Princeton, Yale, Reed or Oregon State. Elitists should take a pill.
EDUcation TLDs. Chartered, for 4-year degree granting institutions.
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COMmercial TLDs. Chartered, for commercial businesses.
NETwork TLDs. Chartered, for Network entities.
ORGanizations TLDs. Chartered, for non-profit organizations.
MILitary TLDs. Chartered, for Military activities.
If you don't like those divisions, use a separate TLD provider
What? There are no separate TLD providers?
What moron came up with that idea?
And ICANN's monopoly is being extended? Lemme guess, Bush had something to do with that
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For profit institutions already have .edu domains. Just look at DeVry and ITT Tech.
The British did it right (japanese and aussie's at least followed.) with .co.uk, .ac.uk (yes there is an entire second level domain for anonymous cowards.)
.com.us , .edu.us, etc...
.com and other TLD's to purely inter/multi-national usage.
It would be great if, local companies would use:
And transitioned
Harvard was allowed to register harvarduniversity.com, so why not allow Dell to register LamestInternsEver.edu?
(Don't those stupid intern commercials make you wish they'd bring the Dell Dude back?)
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Then there was this dead groundhog on the side of the road on the way in. It's an oil conspiracy, I tell you.
Then I have to read leftist conspiracy commments on Slashdot. Crap, I bet this is all really Cheney's doing. No, scratch that, it's Carl Rove, Evil Genius(tm)!
Seriously, though, I know I'm just feeding the troll, but is Bush:
- (a) Dumber than whale piss, -or-
- (b) Mastermind of hundreds of evil government conspiracies?
I hear the political opposition claiming both, but it's really the sort of thing where the choices are mutually exclusive.My God, it's Full of Source!
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