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From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Top-level domains (was: Why no Indians and Arabs?)
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On Sunday, 16 December 2001 at  5:51:14 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> "Brandon D. Valentine" wrote:
>> I know over the years I've been impressed at some of the top
>> level domains I see regularly communicating over the FreeBSD mailing
>> lists.
>
> Actually, this would be a much easier thing to do; use the
> mailing list archives to plot overall message density over
> time by top level domain.
>
> A lot of them would fall into .com and .net, etc., which were
> supposed to be U.S.-only,

The ARPAnet was supposed to be US-only.

> 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.

Greg
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