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From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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Subject: Re: lightbulb?  prob'ly not, but....
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> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:25:01 +0100
> From: Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net>
> Subject: Re: lightbulb?  prob'ly not, but....
>
> thought.org does not resolve:

'irrelevant, and immaterial'.   <grin>

> %telnet thought.org
> thought.org: hostname nor servname provided, or not known

'thought.org' does _not_ need to resolve.  it is a 'domain-name', not a 'host'.

'r-bonomi.com' doesn't resolve either.  but hosts _under_ that domain do.

In the real world, this means =only= that one cannot use <http://{domain.name}>
to reach a home page.  one has to use <http://{host.domain.name}> instead