> No individual entity -- person, place or corporation -- needs a TLD.
The 'nobody needs' standard? That is what and how we think of things? Does anyone 'need' beer or football or 100,000 other things?
In a market system if you have money and if you have made money you can use that money to do things and buy things. It's not up to someone else (you, me or comments on HN) to determine that what we want to buy that we can legitimately buy is 'needed' or not.
Football is of ZERO interest or need to me. But I do recognize that others get pleasure from watching it.
> They're TLDs, they're for giant collections of people, places and things.
"The domain system is a tree-structured global name space that has a few top level domains… While the initial domain name "ARPA" arises from the history of the development of this system and environment, in the future most of the top level names will be very general categories like "government", "education", or "commercial". The motivation is to provide an organization name that is free of undesirable semantics."
The 'nobody needs' standard? That is what and how we think of things? Does anyone 'need' beer or football or 100,000 other things?
In a market system if you have money and if you have made money you can use that money to do things and buy things. It's not up to someone else (you, me or comments on HN) to determine that what we want to buy that we can legitimately buy is 'needed' or not.
Football is of ZERO interest or need to me. But I do recognize that others get pleasure from watching it.
> They're TLDs, they're for giant collections of people, places and things.
According to who exactly?