A glance on domain names
My university organized many conferences, submitted quite a lot of papers, and I wonder if it is considered an academic institute, which translates to an .ac domain
No it’s not 🙁
For those you don’t know the difference between .ac and .edu: .dot edu is an abbreviation for “education”, which means any entity with educational purpose could use this domain, including elementary schools, high schools, vocational colleges and I haven’t seen this but it’s a possibility: kindergartens. Dot ac, on the other hand, stands for “academic”, which means higher education institutes and research is their main function.
So… my university is in the same domain with naughty kids and hysterical teenagers :”( while entities that I never heard about has the “noble” .ac ~_~. It’s like .ac has a really high standard that even a university couldn’t meet!
Side note: in the United Kingdom and Japan it seems like nobody uses .edu, only .ac; perhaps they want to tell everyone in the world that they don’t allow idiots to enter any educational facilites! For the U.S, it’s always .edu and no .ac (they got the 1st level domains already :P)
No, It’s not!
Source: The Google search above, now they are hiring poets for an IT research instute? 😛
Try www.ac.vn
I couldn’t get what VNNIC was thinking allowing the allocation of that. Higher learning institutes got a 3rd level domain while a SMS service bastard get the 2nd level national domain!? What kind of planning is that? Or in Vietnam cell phones are used (more relevant to people) than brains? Sadly nothing could be done, ’cause if you ask them, they I’ll be like “Canadians did that too”.
Doubting that this “www” would be allocated like that somewhere else too, I tred www.edu.vn, name.vn, gov.vn, info.vn, biz.vn etc. Luckily, they are all pointed at dot.vn; so looks like the .ac is an “isolated case” and no one would be held responsible when those reporters find out 😛
Who’s the most advanced
Yesterday I was searching for Russia’s prime minister’s duty and terms, I came across this article and wondered if Vietnam’s prime minister has a page. Sure, I added it to the article. Now some would say Vietnam is no less technology advanced than Thailand or Singapore ;), the parliament (or “national assembly” as it is translated) has a site too.
Well, you can’t get cocky yet, because the party’s general secretary doesn’t seem to know how to open an email account or write a blog, not even letting someone write the biography.
To compare with:
- Singapore: President – Prime minister – Parliament
- Thai: (Contitutional monarchy – no president) The cabinet – Parliament (being constructed) (note that I searched in English only, could be biased because those page may already be finished in Thai)