Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
by eloisant on Saturday November 30, 2019 @05:50AM
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Outside US, country tld are also very common.
Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
by TeMPOraL on Saturday November 30, 2019 @07:38AM
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The same heuristics apply. .<ccTLD> is roughly as trustworthy as .com is; .<class>.<ccTLD> is as trustworthy as .<tld>, where class=tld.
Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
by bjornjaja on Saturday November 30, 2019 @08:07AM
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I think the move to more specific domains is better and .org should be a relic of the past. For instance, consider:
people.org people.health people.art
The last two actually imply what they are about, but the .org could be anything.
Trust and faith in the service associated with a domain needs to be built with standard channels like word of mouth, advertising, good business practices, etc.
Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
by Nullabillity on Saturday November 30, 2019 @10:18AM
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To me an industry-specific TLD just says "We couldn't think of an original name."
Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
by thaumasiotes on Saturday November 30, 2019 @02:05PM
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While that's not inaccurate, I don't think it's a problem. It makes no sense to require everything to have a globally unique name.
This is 100% true. And yet, for the average person, it's viewed as the default mysterious string that ends a website's "name". Anything else is viewed as slightly questionable, although most people are aware of .org and .net as sometimes legitimate exceptions. I think most people would be less likely to enter their credit card information on a ".biz" domain, even though they couldn't express any accurate reason why that made it less trustworthy. That's significant, even if it makes no technological difference.