← Back to context Comment by prmoustache 3 hours ago > You can assume that .com is American unless otherwiseWhy? 3 comments prmoustache Reply crazygringo 3 hours ago Because the internet was invented in America so it's the only country where a country suffix was never used from the start of its popularity.I'm not saying this is good or bad or justified or not, just saying what the conventions are. prmoustache 2 hours ago But there have never been a convention that .com was reserved to the US market.co.uk, com.au, com.mx, com.my and co.jp exist for example, but I have never heard of a co.fr, com.it or co.de or org.dkBottom line: there is no real convention austinjp 2 hours ago Honestly, unless you're going to say you're confused about .net and .io TLDs this comes across as willfully weaponised naivety.
crazygringo 3 hours ago Because the internet was invented in America so it's the only country where a country suffix was never used from the start of its popularity.I'm not saying this is good or bad or justified or not, just saying what the conventions are. prmoustache 2 hours ago But there have never been a convention that .com was reserved to the US market.co.uk, com.au, com.mx, com.my and co.jp exist for example, but I have never heard of a co.fr, com.it or co.de or org.dkBottom line: there is no real convention austinjp 2 hours ago Honestly, unless you're going to say you're confused about .net and .io TLDs this comes across as willfully weaponised naivety.
prmoustache 2 hours ago But there have never been a convention that .com was reserved to the US market.co.uk, com.au, com.mx, com.my and co.jp exist for example, but I have never heard of a co.fr, com.it or co.de or org.dkBottom line: there is no real convention
austinjp 2 hours ago Honestly, unless you're going to say you're confused about .net and .io TLDs this comes across as willfully weaponised naivety.
Because the internet was invented in America so it's the only country where a country suffix was never used from the start of its popularity.
I'm not saying this is good or bad or justified or not, just saying what the conventions are.
But there have never been a convention that .com was reserved to the US market.
co.uk, com.au, com.mx, com.my and co.jp exist for example, but I have never heard of a co.fr, com.it or co.de or org.dk
Bottom line: there is no real convention
Honestly, unless you're going to say you're confused about .net and .io TLDs this comes across as willfully weaponised naivety.