[24080] in Privacy_Forum
[ PRIVACY Forum ] More on ".web"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Sat Jul 25 12:35:03 2026
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:21:14 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
To: privacy-dist@vortex.com
Message-ID: <20260725162114.GA6243@vortex.com>
Content-Disposition: inline
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"
Errors-To: privacy-bounces+privacy-forum=mit.edu@vortex.com
More on ".web"
On further thought, I think the key is that the term "web" has become
wedded to the concept of web sites viewed via browsers, while much
actual usage is now tied to apps where "web" is not actually a highly
visible aspect of the user experience. I suspect this carries over to
.web as a TLD, and why it feels a bit archaic. It's less likely that
.com will suffer this fate, since it is not intrinsically tied to
"web" (or any other particular modality of Internet usage) and of
course has a massive historical advantage. -L
- - -
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com (https://www.vortex.com/lauren)
Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com
Mastodon: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren
Signal: By request on need to know basis
Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org
PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility
_______________________________________________
privacy mailing list
https://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy
