Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 01:43:01 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "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: <3C1DBE25.B03DC40@mindspring.com> References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C1CA6D2.1AC0F625@mindspring.com> <20011217092422.W62493@monorchid.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. ??? In the UK, it was ".co.uk". in fact, most of Europe used X.500 ordering, as in "uk.co.demon" for a very long time. 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. 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. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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