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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:24:22 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Top-level domains (was: Why no Indians and Arabs?)
Message-ID:  <20011217092422.W62493@monorchid.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C1CA6D2.1AC0F625@mindspring.com>
References:  <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C1CA6D2.1AC0F625@mindspring.com>

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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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