Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:29:43 -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: <3C1DD727.C7F10C6D@mindspring.com> References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C1CA6D2.1AC0F625@mindspring.com> <20011217092422.W62493@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C1DBE25.B03DC40@mindspring.com> <20011217203908.S14500@monorchid.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. > > Your prerogative. Commercial use has nothing to do with choice of > domain names, of course. The ".com" TLD did not take off until commercial enterprise was permitted. Before that, there were a few ".com" sites, but they were run by the research arms of corporations. > > 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. > > If you say so. I don't know what that has to do with the discussion. It has to do with ".com" not being sortable to provide statistically valid nationality demographics, of course. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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