Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

[woody at pch.net (Bill Woodcock)]

On Oct 21, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:

> Breaking tons of things is an interesting opinion of "why notâ??.

Eh.  Off the top of my head, I see two categories of breakage:

   1) things that hard-code a list of â??realâ?? TLDs, and break when their expectations arenâ??t met, and 

   2) things that went ahead and trumped up their own non-canonical TLDs for their own purposes.

Neither of those seem like practices worth defending, to me.  Not worth going out of oneâ??s way to break, either, butâ?¦

And in the latter case, like â??alternate roots,â?? thatâ??s not an argument against creating more TLDsâ?¦  Theyâ??ve already been created.  Itâ??s an argument against doing so in an uncoordinated manner, which is the source of the breakage.

                                -Bill




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