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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."
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
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
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Einstein)
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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