Will this also affect lemmy.ml?mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to Lemmy@lemmy.ml – 480 points – 1 years ago176Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent comment .edu Education (MURICA) .edu is not only american. For example I know many schools in France have .edu domains and emails, and I believe it's the case in many more countries.In 2001 it was limited to US educational institutions only, all registrations prior were grandfathered in. Although I haven't got a clue why my non-US university, founded in 2009, has a .edu domain.I did not know that. That's not coolPretty sure most countries use .ac for universities. Ac.uk, ac.au, ac.nz are all standard.Australia doesn’t. We’re all .edu.au Edit: here is the list of who uses it. Stands for academia if it wasn’t self evident to anyone else either. 2nd edit: having trouble with escaping characters in the link so it’s defaulting to the ac page when it should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)Sorry, remembered wrong. Stands to reason, you guys like .com.au instead of .co.wherever as well.2 more...2 more...2 more...2 more...2 more...
.edu Education (MURICA) .edu is not only american. For example I know many schools in France have .edu domains and emails, and I believe it's the case in many more countries.In 2001 it was limited to US educational institutions only, all registrations prior were grandfathered in. Although I haven't got a clue why my non-US university, founded in 2009, has a .edu domain.I did not know that. That's not coolPretty sure most countries use .ac for universities. Ac.uk, ac.au, ac.nz are all standard.Australia doesn’t. We’re all .edu.au Edit: here is the list of who uses it. Stands for academia if it wasn’t self evident to anyone else either. 2nd edit: having trouble with escaping characters in the link so it’s defaulting to the ac page when it should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)Sorry, remembered wrong. Stands to reason, you guys like .com.au instead of .co.wherever as well.2 more...2 more...2 more...2 more...2 more...
In 2001 it was limited to US educational institutions only, all registrations prior were grandfathered in. Although I haven't got a clue why my non-US university, founded in 2009, has a .edu domain.I did not know that. That's not coolPretty sure most countries use .ac for universities. Ac.uk, ac.au, ac.nz are all standard.Australia doesn’t. We’re all .edu.au Edit: here is the list of who uses it. Stands for academia if it wasn’t self evident to anyone else either. 2nd edit: having trouble with escaping characters in the link so it’s defaulting to the ac page when it should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)Sorry, remembered wrong. Stands to reason, you guys like .com.au instead of .co.wherever as well.2 more...2 more...2 more...2 more...
I did not know that. That's not coolPretty sure most countries use .ac for universities. Ac.uk, ac.au, ac.nz are all standard.Australia doesn’t. We’re all .edu.au Edit: here is the list of who uses it. Stands for academia if it wasn’t self evident to anyone else either. 2nd edit: having trouble with escaping characters in the link so it’s defaulting to the ac page when it should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)Sorry, remembered wrong. Stands to reason, you guys like .com.au instead of .co.wherever as well.2 more...2 more...2 more...
Pretty sure most countries use .ac for universities. Ac.uk, ac.au, ac.nz are all standard.Australia doesn’t. We’re all .edu.au Edit: here is the list of who uses it. Stands for academia if it wasn’t self evident to anyone else either. 2nd edit: having trouble with escaping characters in the link so it’s defaulting to the ac page when it should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)Sorry, remembered wrong. Stands to reason, you guys like .com.au instead of .co.wherever as well.2 more...2 more...
Australia doesn’t. We’re all .edu.au Edit: here is the list of who uses it. Stands for academia if it wasn’t self evident to anyone else either. 2nd edit: having trouble with escaping characters in the link so it’s defaulting to the ac page when it should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)Sorry, remembered wrong. Stands to reason, you guys like .com.au instead of .co.wherever as well.2 more...
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is not only american. For example I know many schools in France have.edu
domains and emails, and I believe it's the case in many more countries.In 2001 it was limited to US educational institutions only, all registrations prior were grandfathered in.
Although I haven't got a clue why my non-US university, founded in 2009, has a .edu domain.
I did not know that. That's not cool
Pretty sure most countries use .ac for universities. Ac.uk, ac.au, ac.nz are all standard.
Australia doesn’t. We’re all .edu.au
Edit: here is the list of who uses it. Stands for academia if it wasn’t self evident to anyone else either.
2nd edit: having trouble with escaping characters in the link so it’s defaulting to the ac page when it should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)
Sorry, remembered wrong.
Stands to reason, you guys like .com.au instead of .co.wherever as well.