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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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