The only mistake was not opening the root namespace altogether. It’s just a money grab.

The only mistake was not putting all US domains under .us, now the US has an an exorbitant privilege to print and enforce rules on new TLDs.

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kmoser 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What do you mean by "US domains?" Domains registered by US citizens? Hosted in the US (in which case does that include territories)? Regardless of the definition, I don't see an easy way to do this, nor a reason to, since domains can change hands (and hosts) across countries.

	▲	NewJazz 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		.edu and .gov are us-specific, not sure if that is what they are referring to.
	▲	microgpt an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Domains that fall under the jurisdiction of the US? The domains themselves not the websites they point to? Everything under .games is controlled by the US government, the German government gets .games.de instead. To be fair it should be .games.us and .games.de (or .spiele.de) Even gTLDs using other languages, like .kaufen, are under US jurisdiction. A German website selling to German customers using a .kaufen domain is forced to abide by US law as well as German law or loses the domain. Using a .de domain they would only have to abide by German law. That's unfair that the US government gets to stick its grubby fingers into every TLD that isn't a country code.

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dgellow 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, that wasn’t done by mistake

	▲	philipallstar 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sometimes hindsight is 1/20.