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mattmanser on April 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD

Why wan't it .co.us then? Or .com.uk? At best it's meaningless, at worse the US was the very first domain squatter sitting on all the tlds.

What actually happened is a massive waste of money paying for stupid extra domain names to stop someone else impersonating you. It's just historical.

And now they claim their increasingly worrying and opaque laws apply to any website that uses it, which is even worse for us all.

That the UK decided to then follow the naming convention (or any other country that did) is a waste of letters.

Total farce.

(I did actually mean UK, I'm English and it was a slip)

walshemj on April 30, 2013 | [–]

Because county tlds organization is devolved to that country duh they each do their own thing.

justincormack on April 30, 2013 | [–]

.co.x vs .com.x is arbitrary. But .uk should be .gb technically.

blowski on April 30, 2013 | [–]

Actually, .gb exists as well, but the subdomain is dra.hmg.gb.

.uk was created before the standard was agreed, and the UK was allowed to keep using it.

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