Bookworm wrote:
Just as a FYI, .com, .org, .edu, .mil, .gov, and .net were developed by the US when DNS was first being conceptualized. There were enough computers on the (D)ARPNET backbone that it was getting confusing to track hosts files. At that point, there wasn't a .us, .au, .gb, .de, or the others. Those came slightly later.
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Incorrect. .us has existed for nearly as long, but had really a fixed 3-layer structure that prevented most people from using it. The three layers only had structure for states, cities, etc.
It meant to simplify, but it mostly confused non-techy people. Only recently was .us normalized so that it could be used by .us companies.
-- Jo Rhett Network/Software Engineer Net Consonance
