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Lynn Proposes Three New TLDs
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Well, if your right, and the internet is only developed by the US, then the US can take a similar attitude as the UK does to stamps: They refuse to put the name of the country on it. Others have to do that. They don't, they invented them!
Then, why are there already at the beginning of the DNS ccTLDs? The first are from 1985, not coincidently the year in which also .gov was established, according to whois (Jan 1, 1985, perhaps more a guess than a fact).
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God bless the US of A
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I'm not sure what your point about stamps is, so I can't comment on that.
All I am saying is that the Internet is an American-born technology, originating as ARPAnet.com, I believe; it's reach wasn't originally global. It was national and was developed to ensure that telecommunications would not collapse in the event of a military attack from the Soviet Union. The concept of a web, a network of sorts, instead of a centralized computer system grew out of Cold War fears.
And since America developed this technology, that eventually grew to it's far-reaching form of today, I don't think America should now be required to relinquish proprietary rights on .mil, .gov and .edu. These TLDs were installed when the Internet was still an American entity, not quite globalized. That's the way history went.
From this point on is a very different thing.
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