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Chris Ambler explains: Why I'm Bitter
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The idea that a TLD is an organization feature is your interpretation and merely an interpretion. TLDs as categories is not something required by technology.
By-the-way, a domain name is a key to an entire set of record types, only one type of which contains IPv4 address information. And once you get an address the machine that it references can export a wide collection of services.
Consequently the idea of a domain name as any sort of categorization tool breaks down as soon as one breaks out of the "internet is the world wide web" mentality.
Who cares what .web means to the mind of the end user. Exactly what "Disney" meant to folks in 1920 and exactly what .com meant to folks in 1970 - nothing. It's up to IOD to create their brand. And they should not be denied the opportunity to do so.
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Re:A couple of questions
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"The idea that a TLD is an organizaton feature" is not just one person's interpretation; it's actually incorporated into RFC 1591 [ohio-state.edu], which says that "Each of the generic TLDs was created for a general category of organizations." (That's "category of organizations", which is different from "category of Web sites", however.)
The hierarchical, categorized nature of domain names dates to the creation of the DNS in the 1980s, before the Web existed, so it's not part of the "internet is the world wide web" mentality.
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