Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:36:20 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Top-level domains (was: Why no Indians and Arabs?) Message-ID: <3C1DD8B4.5879142F@mindspring.com> References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C1CA6D2.1AC0F625@mindspring.com> <20011217092422.W62493@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C1DBE25.B03DC40@mindspring.com> <a0510102ab84370b13185@[10.0.1.22]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > Even if that was the first mass registration, there were plenty > of organizations outside the US that already had registrations in the > .com, .net, .edu, and .org gTLDs. The issue here is not the reason > for the first explosion in registrations, but the simple existence of > gTLD registrations outside the US from a very early period. I'm saying the rules didn't allow this, at one time. I know at least one Canadian who got a .com domainin order to get around a U.S. .com based location check on cryptographic code (PGP from MIT, particularly). It used to be valid to make national decisions based on TLD suffix, even for .com/.edu/.net/.gov/.mil (.edu/.gov/.mil decisions are still valid -- or perhaps, the .edu one is no logner valid, though I have no counter examples at hand). All I'm saying is that demographic collation based on mailing list archives would have to take the effect of the spread of nominally U.S.-only domain names outside the U.S.. I also think that the browser completion was probably an unfortunate mistake, without a synthetic requirement (e.g. that such names must be CNAMEs, not A records, for demographically valid names). I'm a little miffed that ".tm" was given out as a country code, rather than to a trademark namespace, while I'm at it... 8^). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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