As someone who saw the early stages of domain registration (I got my vanity domain from ISI) ...
Watching sub-national .gov domains getting registered willy-nilly - towns, state-level departments, counties, programs/services, all jumbled into the same second level - is excruciating.
[state-2char-code].us used to be a thing - and it automatically kept the namespaces clean and disambiguated. And it made queries like "show me all the domains in Utah" trivial.
Instead, disambiguation is randomly and unparseably overloaded into that second level, in whatever way people feel like (and can achieve uniqueness). Is a "co" suffix Colorado ... or county? 🤷
The .us TLD should have never been privatized.
This account is my favorite self-torture follow. :D
@tychotithonus And, here I thought I was the only one that was super-bothered by this.
CISA is supposed to be defending the .gov domain, but how any anyone even remotely trust it when all these muni's and muni orgs can make silly second-level doms and run anything they want on them?
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