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There's .com, .nl, .be, .de, .fr, etc.
I recently learned .com stands for commercial instead of, what I previously thought, communication.
There must be a name for these letters that come after the name of the website. I do not know it and could not find it.
But I propose a new one: .noncom
Websites
with .noncom are non commercial. No commercial activities allowed, no banners, no advertising, no company logo's, non of all that.
A sea of tranquility in a busy internet.
(Also I want to search the internet for sites that end in .nl, or .be or .noncom or any other)
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http://en.wikipedia...t_top-level_domains
[zeno, Jan 11 2011]
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They're called TLDs - "Top Level Domains". |
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[zeno] I think that's what .net and .org are supposed to represent. i.e. non-commercial domains - but trying to limit advertising on what appears to be a pretty arbitrary convention may be a tricky ask. |
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Sorry [zeno] but the medium is the message. The Internet is indistinct of modern industrial hypercapitalism. The user is content. |
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//(Also I want to search the internet for sites that end in .nl, or .be or .noncom or any other)// |
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Googling for "site:*.nl" seems to return a decent selection of Dutch sites. |
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Yes, I also thought that was one of the reasons behind .org and .net. But really everything is permeated with commercialism and I can't stand it. |
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Seems to work [Wrongfellow], thanks, I'll waist some time with that. |
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And now that I know what they are called I can search for them. There are so many (see link) and so many restrictions that I have high hopes that .noncom domains will one day be the outlet of the wiser part of our population. Perhaps with a more positive sounding name. |
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... what 21Q said; "noncom" is short for "non-commissioned (officer)" which generally has a military meaning. |
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wasn't this what .org was supposed to be for? |
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//No commercial activities allowed, no banners, no
advertising, no company logo's, non of all that.// That's how
it differs from .org, .net, etc. |
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I'm a .gov myself. Feel the power! |
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Hmmm, been reading up on this, and just learned about the .name and .pro TLDs - which I'd never come across before. |
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