From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 3:36:25 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 A9AAF37B405; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:36:21 -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 16Fw4A-0001aw-00; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:36:19 -0800 Message-ID: <3C1DD8B4.5879142F@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:36:20 -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: Brad Knowles Cc: Greg Lehey , "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> 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 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