France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994

Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by deftnerd on Sunday April 29, 2018 @12:26PM (#16952669)

That's a dangerous precedent.

If nobody has the right to a phone number, and governments can assign any telephone number to themselves that they wish, that the Russian government can take over the phone number to the Whitehouse Switchboard? Then the Whitehouse would have to take it back and it would be the start of a perpetual tug-of-war?

I assume your response would be that "no, the US has already reserved that number". But isn't that what happened with France.com? It was already reserved.

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by 49bc on Sunday April 29, 2018 @12:50PM (#16952760)

Telephone numbers are well delineated between counties with “country codes”. I don’t think anybody is confused about which country owns what number.

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by hultner on Sunday April 29, 2018 @01:33PM (#16952967)

But so are domains, just with a suffix instead of a prefix.

You oughta think a .com domain is more suitable for a commercial entity then for a government/state department.

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by simias on Sunday April 29, 2018 @01:43PM (#16953006)

.com has become the de-facto default TLD for the net for better or worse.

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by 9935c101ab17a66 on Sunday April 29, 2018 @10:26PM (#16955241)

Maybe the default for businesses, but not countries. Canada.com -> Not government owned USA.com -> not government owned Germany.com -> not government owned

Just some quick ones I checked, but you get the gist.

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by hultner on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:07AM (#16956694)

As a Sweden .se is the de-facto domain for everything specific to Sweden.

I.e. see http://sweden.com/ vs http://sweden.se/

Or http://www.skatteverket.se/ vs http://www.skatteverket.com/ for that matter.

From my experience .com is the de-facto domain for international commercial entities. For my personal domain I use hultner.se

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by gsich on Sunday April 29, 2018 @04:02PM (#16953654)

somewhat disagree, hipster companies use .io for example

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by setr on Sunday April 29, 2018 @04:28PM (#16953767)

doing as hipsters do, specifically avoiding the norm/default.

a perfect example of the exception proving the rule, i think

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by mediaserf on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:24AM (#16957949)

This is the interesting thing. If it had been france.us - would the policy be different? .com is a special case, as if a number existed outside of an allocated country code.

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