Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
Mehmet Akcin
mehmet at akcin.net
Sun Oct 19 14:00:45 UTC 2014
you can register .edu if you are a non-us institution as long as you are accredited by a US recognized organization
Mehmet
> On Oct 19, 2014, at 6:13 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco at ns.sol.net> wrote:
>>
>> But to make a long story short, and my memory's perhaps a bit rusty
>> now, but my recollection is that shorter URL's looked nicer and there
>> was significant money to be had running the registry, so there was
>> some heavy lobbying against retiring .GOV in favor of .FED.US (and
>> other .US locality domains).
> [snip]
>
> The same problem exists with .EDU capriciously adopting new criteria
> that excludes any non-US-based institutions from being eligible. I
> believe the major issue is that if a TLD is in the global namespace,
> then it should NOT be allowed to restrict registrations based on
> country; the internet is global and .GOV and .EDU are in Global
> Namespace.
>
> So then, why aren't .EDU and .GOV just allowed to continue to exist
> but a community decision made to require whichever registry will be
> contracted to manage .GOV to accept registrations from _all_
> government entities regardless of nationality ?
>
> In otherwords, rejection of the idea that a registry operating GTLD
> namespace can be allowed to impose overly exclusive "eligibility
> criteria"
>
>
>> ... JG
>
> --
> -JH
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