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Re: verdict in new gTLDs: no .music, .gay, .art, .kids, or .taxi

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Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On 2014-10-11 17:38:17 +0000, Paul Sture said:

>>No. The world outside the US has got quite fond of its 2 letter country
>>name TLDs.  Living in Europe as I do it's a very handy identifier.  I find
>>it particularly handy when searching for suppliers, as it takes zero effort
>>to see whether a potential supplier is in my country or not.

>I'm sorry for failing to mention it, but I do see the utility of these 
>two letter TLDs.  I might add that I believe that they should be 
>limited in use to entities that are actually inside the country 
>however.  There's too much cutesy shit going around with them.  fu.ck 
>th.at

Since last year, a physical location in the United States has been
required for .us, apparently Patriot Act nonsense. I have a couple of
locality-based names. One of the registratars said new US Department of
Commerce regulations required me to file a notarized document to establish
residency; the other didn't. I didn't even know the first one required it
till they had briefly suspended routing, 'cuz they managed to lose my
email address. They also said I'd have to re-certify annually, but
they never set that up. It's not quite so nonsensical that I had to
prove residence in the locality itself, just the United States.

Prior to 2002, locality-based registrations were all that was available
under .us. Starting in 2002, second-level registrations were allowed.

Other countries with minor Internet access simply license their country
code TLD to a commercial registrar for income. Tuvalu found .tv to be
quite valuable.

Few countries require a physical presence to register
a domain name under their ccTLD.

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verdict in new gTLDs: no .music, .gay, .art, .kids, or .taxi RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-08 16:37 +0000
  Re: verdict in new gTLDs: no .music, .gay, .art, .kids, or .taxi Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-10 15:40 -0700
    Re: verdict in new gTLDs: no .music, .gay, .art, .kids, or .taxi Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-10-11 19:38 +0200
      Re: verdict in new gTLDs: no .music, .gay, .art, .kids, or .taxi Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-12 21:31 -0700
        Re: verdict in new gTLDs: no .music, .gay, .art, .kids, or .taxi "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2014-11-01 15:49 +0000

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