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[-] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] teolan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I did not know that. That's not cool

[-] livus@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure most countries use .ac for universities. Ac.uk, ac.au, ac.nz are all standard.

[-] billstickers@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Australia doesn’t. We’re all .edu.au

Edit: here is the list of who uses it. Stands for academia if it wasn’t self evident to anyone else either.

2nd edit: having trouble with escaping characters in the link so it’s defaulting to the ac page when it should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, remembered wrong.

Stands to reason, you guys like .com.au instead of .co.wherever as well.

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