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And horrible domain name: How come `code.gov` is US-only? How come it's motto is "Help propel America’s next breakthrough in innovation"? If this in not imperialism, I don;t know what is.

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The gov TLD is US only. Other countries have their own, e.g. In the UK most government sites are under gov.uk.

> The gov TLD is US only.

And you think it is normal? Why not gov.us? The US are always giving lessons to the world, but do not even understand that we --the other parts of the world-- would like to have some minimal level of fairness.

.us is barely used. The three letter TLDs started out as US only because the whole internet started out as US only. The first country that got its own national TLD was Netherland (.nl). .us was introduced later, but by that time, the ship had sailed.

> Why not gov.us?

Because creator privilege and because life is not fair.

Civilisation, development of human ethics, laws, all this stuff is our way to adjust for the unfairness of life. Also, back people did not invent our create the buses, was it right to let them seat in the back, when they where even allow to get in?

The US gets the .gov TLD because they made the internet.

Why would we need fairness ? They financed and created the internet, they can have at least a TLD.

Other parts of the world should have made the internet then.

Then you don't know what imperialism is. Simple as that.

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