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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."

2 of 30 comments (clear)

  1. For profit instutituons by polyiguana · · Score: 2, Informative

    For profit institutions already have .edu domains. Just look at DeVry and ITT Tech.

  2. Re:Stupify by ivan256 · · Score: 2, Informative
    ORGanizations TLDs. Chartered, for non-profit organizations.

    From RFC 1591:

    ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here.


    It doesn't say anything about non-profit in there.

    The uses for the TLDs were specifically defined. They mean what the RFC says they mean and not what you decided they should mean.

    What? There are no separate TLD providers?

    The TLDs are not all administered by the same entity. ICANN is authorised to award the contracts to manage any particular TLD, but the contracts are presently held by a variety of companies. In fact, the number of companies controlling TLDs is increasing, since Verisign is loosing controll of both the .net and .org TLDs by 2006.

    Before you go blaming people for problems, make sure the problems exist.