<story><title>An Appeal to Google: Make &quot;.io&quot; a gccTLD</title><url>http://clay.io/blog/an-appeal-to-google-make-io-a-gcctld/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fosap</author><text>In defense of the current status: You are all misusing (or absuing) the DNS. Do you live in (or target) the British Indian Ocean Territory? No? Then this domain is not meant for you. This is a hack, and I don&apos;t like it. (For the same reason i don&apos;t like the new gTLDs) This sound a bit like a complain that reading Shakespeare in hexspeak is not very pleasant.&lt;p&gt;/Edit: Sorry for beating a dead horse. I know TLDs are not used the way I think they should be used. But I think it was important to point out once again that this is a dirty hack. It works, but when working outside of the spec you should be aware of it a accept shortcomings. Not saying you should not ask google to route around it. But it has it limits. &quot;.at&quot; are meant for Austria and not for email providers, that&apos;s something they just should deal with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>That ship has long sailed. Saying people are abusing DNS by using a country level domain is like saying people are abusing the word &apos;awful&apos; when they use it to mean &apos;bad&apos;.&lt;p&gt;People _are_ using TLDs in this way, and the relevant countries, registrars, and ICANN seem happy to let them. It has no impact on the internet, other than freeing up a whole bunch of domain names, thereby lowering the price for everybody.</text></comment>
<story><title>An Appeal to Google: Make &quot;.io&quot; a gccTLD</title><url>http://clay.io/blog/an-appeal-to-google-make-io-a-gcctld/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fosap</author><text>In defense of the current status: You are all misusing (or absuing) the DNS. Do you live in (or target) the British Indian Ocean Territory? No? Then this domain is not meant for you. This is a hack, and I don&apos;t like it. (For the same reason i don&apos;t like the new gTLDs) This sound a bit like a complain that reading Shakespeare in hexspeak is not very pleasant.&lt;p&gt;/Edit: Sorry for beating a dead horse. I know TLDs are not used the way I think they should be used. But I think it was important to point out once again that this is a dirty hack. It works, but when working outside of the spec you should be aware of it a accept shortcomings. Not saying you should not ask google to route around it. But it has it limits. &quot;.at&quot; are meant for Austria and not for email providers, that&apos;s something they just should deal with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>It turns out that we&apos;ve got massive domain squatting, America somehow snagged .com instead of .us, England decided to use .co.uk for no apparent reason, there&apos;s seemingly some sort of massive corruption going on in ICANN &apos;selling&apos; tlds, etc., etc.&lt;p&gt;i.e. the whole thing turned into a complete and utter farce long ago.&lt;p&gt;In the end it&apos;s not a perfect world and it&apos;s a hack because the very tld domain system itself was woefully broken even in conception.</text></comment>