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If one would make index.wiki the new domain, than it means to change the name of the wiki to '''Index'''. | If one would make index.wiki the new domain, than it means to change the name of the wiki to '''Index'''. | ||
How silly is that?? [[User:Manorainjan|Manorainjan]] ([[User talk:Manorainjan|talk]]) 00:15, 14 March 2015 (UTC) | How silly is that?? [[User:Manorainjan|Manorainjan]] ([[User talk:Manorainjan|talk]]) 00:15, 14 March 2015 (UTC) | ||
The original [[Wikipedia: top-level domain]]s were divided into two groups: | |||
(a) country code top-level domains, and (b) generic top-level domains. | |||
* the WikiIndex is not local to any one country, so none of the country code top-level domains are appropriate | |||
* The original generic top-level domains were ".com .edu .gov .mil .org" (see [[Wikipedia: generic top-level domain]]). | |||
* the WikiIndex is noncommercial, not a United States-affiliated institutions of higher education, not a government agency, not a US DoD organization, so none of .com, .edu, .gov, or .mil are appropriate. | |||
* That leaves only .org "non-profit organizations" as the most appropriate of any of the original top-level domains. | |||
It makes me sad when people are tricked into thinking that the commercial internet (".com") is all there is to the internet, or thinking that the top-level domain ".org" doesn't mean anything or "speak to" the general web-surfer. | |||
--[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] ([[User talk:DavidCary|talk]]) 21:23, 24 April 2015 (PDT) | |||
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