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From: Weissenberger, Todd M
Date: Jun 16, 2014 1:21PM

One of our student disability groups on campus is creating a new website, and they would like to use a top level domain URL. Their rationale is that a simpler URL could provide an accessibility boost due to its simplicity and brevity.

Our university hostmaster is resisting this request, as the resource is linkable from other sites on campus.

Has anybody considered this before? Does it make any sense?

Thanks,
Todd