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Subject: Re: Top-level domains (was: Why no Indians and Arabs?)
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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

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