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.edu Expansion Blurs The Lines

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-primary-and-elementary dept.

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."

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  1. Is it Just Me... by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...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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    1. Re: Is it Just Me... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny


      > ...or do I see a "Bubba's School for Making Porn" getting bubba-pr0n-school.edu right around the corner?

      Inspired by your post, I'm going to found a school called Prestigious Occupations in Registered Nursing. I've already reserved porn.edu, and since I'm still drumming up funding for the school I created a placeholder site full of pictures of nurses ministering to their patients, their doctors, and sometimes even each other.

      Don't be alarmed if you have to pay to view the placeholder site; that's just a way of raising more money for this good cause.

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  2. Simple by 0x0d0a · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  3. Re:Blah! by stevew · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh - this is WAY to intelligent a suggestion. What the HECK is it doing on /.???

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  4. That doesn't help me! by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 2, Funny

    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!

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  5. It would be nice of .us were useful. by anon+mouse-cow-aard · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.)

    It would be great if, local companies would use: .com.us , .edu.us, etc...

    And transitioned .com and other TLD's to purely inter/multi-national usage.