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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."
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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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.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
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