Well, this is just weird. When I was migrating from Reddit to this fediverse world I chose .ml and thought it was short for “machine learning” which seemed as a cool domain for me at the time.

FYI, two letter TLDs are country/region/jurisdiction specific. There’s an ISO standard for that.

• .tv Tuvalu
• .me Montenegro
• .fm (Federation of) Micronesia

Some countries append additional modifiers to classify their uses:

• .uk United Kingdom
• .co.uk Company
• …

Three or more are generic (traditional or new)

• .com, .net, .org, …

In some cases, Uncle Sam said “first!” and it stuck.

• .edu Education (MURICA)
• .mil Military (MURRICA)
• .gov Government (MURRRICA)

Just like what happens with Mali, what some silicon valley hipsters decide as a ‘fun’ acronym is just that, a fun thought. If the corresponding government decides to take away a specific domain, they probably can.

• .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 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

www.monash.edu