Comment by bodge5000
17 hours ago
There are plenty of US sites that make no mention of being US specific, I feel like this is well deserved
17 hours ago
There are plenty of US sites that make no mention of being US specific, I feel like this is well deserved
The US is the center of the world though. There are privileges to that like assuming the world revolves around you.
For now at least, empires fall, so do superpowers.
There is a reason the prime meridian goes through Greenwich and it isn’t because we asked nicely.
> There are privileges to that like assuming the world revolves around you.
Sometimes you need moments like this to remind you that your assumption is wrong
> The US is the center of the world though
Give it a few months.
Due to the history of the internet, anything ".com" should be assumed to be US-specific if not obviously global, just like anything ".co.uk" should be assumed to be UK-specific if not obviously global.
If you use a .com for something that is specific to a country/region that is not the US, the onus is on you to clarify. That's the problem here. If you're not going to make it ".uk", then you should be making that obvious on the homepage.
Due to the history of the internet, anything ".com" should be assumed to be a commercial entity.
If you are from the US, the only nation who doesn't frequently use a national TLD, the onus is on you to judge if a site is commercial, US-specific, global, or something else entirely.
I mean... I don't disagree that there is an onus on any website to make it clear who it's audience is. But .com hasn't been exclusively US centric for literally decades. Even during peak 90s domain name territorialism .com meant "commercial".
People outside the USA, i.e. the majority of the world, often experience the opposite to what you've described: the tiresome implicit assumption that everything on the internet is US-related by default. It's not.