Masataka Ohta wrote:
>
> Andre;
>
> > I was wondering if anybody has written a documentation that examines
> > the usability of national domain names and provides advice on what
> > approaches are actually useable.
>
> It highly depends on locale that generic document is harmful.
>
> > For example, I recently had a
> > discussion
> > with some people on the .us domain on how unusable it is due to the
> > length
> > of the domain names - myco.mytown.mystate.us. How about having .com.us,
>
> Try to use <zip-code>.us.
>
> > .edu.us, and accepting that anything without a country extension is
> > should
> > now be reserved for international use, contrary to what the original
> > RFC
> > said on the use of the .com, .edu, .gov domain names.
>
> Huh?
>
> .com etc. have been international, from the beginning.
If you read the following RFC: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1591.txt
you will
see there are limitations to which the USA has privilege. Has this
document
been revised?
Andre
