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A very interesting fact – although we have seen .com.cn com.au and other domain name suffixes divided by country, we have never seen .com.us .
Please note that this article only makes reasonable guesses based on Internet-related information, without careful historical research on this, please carefully screen and think for yourself.
Query the Public Suffix List to find that there is no .com.us suffix. why is that? Recall that the Chinese government domain name suffix .gov.cn and the Chinese education unit domain name suffix .edu.cn , while the United States uses .gov and .edu as the domain name suffix for its government and educational units.
This problem is prevalent in many well-known top-level domains, such as .com .net .org .edu .gov .mil . Historically, most of the early sites on the World Wide Web originated in the United States. At the time, with almost no other regions using the World Wide Web, the United States became the “default”. Today, although the World Wide Web is no longer limited to a certain region, but this historical legacy persists, other regions have to be “treated differently”. Now, however, domain extensions other than .edu .gov .mil are generally globalized, and websites using these extensions are no longer considered US-based by default.
This phenomenon may continue to exist in the future, or it may change as the Internet develops and evolves. In general, the selection and use of domain name suffixes involves various considerations, including factors such as history, culture, laws and regulations, and technology. In the future, with the continuous development and evolution of the Internet, the use of domain name suffixes may change, but whether this problem will be finally resolved, or whether it needs to be resolved, requires the joint efforts and in-depth discussions of all parties.
related discussion
- Reddit – Why does America use .com and not .us? : NoStupidQuestions
- Quora – Why do websites in the US end with .com and not .us?
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