From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 3:29:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C85C37B41E; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:29:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0066.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.66] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Fvxl-0006jV-00; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:29:42 -0800 Message-ID: <3C1DD727.C7F10C6D@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:29:43 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , David Greenman , Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Top-level domains (was: Why no Indians and Arabs?) References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C1CA6D2.1AC0F625@mindspring.com> <20011217092422.W62493@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C1DBE25.B03DC40@mindspring.com> <20011217203908.S14500@monorchid.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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 ".com" TLD did not take off until commercial enterprise was permitted. Before that, there were a few ".com" sites, but they were run by the research arms of corporations. > > 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. It has to do with ".com" not being sortable to provide statistically valid nationality demographics, of course. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message