From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 2: 9:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAB837B41C for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 02:09:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 41B0B786E4; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:39:08 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:39:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , David Greenman , Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Top-level domains (was: Why no Indians and Arabs?) Message-ID: <20011217203908.S14500@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C1CA6D2.1AC0F625@mindspring.com> <20011217092422.W62493@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C1DBE25.B03DC40@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C1DBE25.B03DC40@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 17 December 2001 at 1:43:01 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >>> and started being taken by outside the U.S. because of the browser >>> auto-completion defaults adding a ".com" suffix and "www." prefix, >>> if the initial lookup(s) failed. >> >> The use of these TLDs outside the US far predates the Web. > > ??? > > In the UK, it was ".co.uk". in fact, most of Europe used X.500 > ordering, as in "uk.co.demon" for a very long time. Correct, that was one possibility. All countries, even the USA, have geographical name TLDs. > Since the first time I saw "the Web" was ~1991, and since the > ARPANet, which became the NSFNet, which became the Internet, did not > allow commercial use until it was deregulated out from under > auspices of the NSF, I find that a little hard to believe. Your prerogative. Commercial use has nothing to do with choice of domain names, of course. > The big explosion in domain name registration; in fact, the major > justification for them charging for domain names -- I have several > which predate registration costs entirely, from the very early > 1990's -- was the registration by Dupont of several hundred > trademark based domain names in a signle day. If you say so. I don't know what that has to do with the discussion. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message