On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> > You can try rewriting history but not today. Thos of us who know the
> > history and were there know .org was for Organizations and .COM was that
> > "catch all" generic tld. Maybe your confused with your history lesson.
>
> Actually Joe, he's right. .com was for commercials and .org was for
> everything that didn't quite fit elsewhere.
I finamiliar with the original definitions but I'm talking about the
practice. .COM domain only became popular over .ORG only after the rush.
Remember around 1975 all the newbies started collecting themselves in the
.COM world. .ORG was a "catch all" tld - maybe in definition but not in
practice.
regards
joe
Joe Baptista - only at www.baptista.god
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a great place for authors in the inclusive namespace
>
> Postel and Reynold's laid this out in RFC 920...
>
> "Temporary
>
> ARPA = The current ARPA-Internet hosts.
>
> Categories
>
> GOV = Government, any government related domains meeting the
> second level requirements.
>
> EDU = Education, any education related domains meeting the
> second level requirements.
>
> COM = Commercial, any commercial related domains meeting the
> second level requirements.
>
> MIL = Military, any military related domains meeting the
> second level requirements.
>
> ORG = Organization, any other domains meeting the second
> level requirements."
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> -rwr
>
>
> "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an
> idiot."
> - Steven Wright
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [TLDA-Members] Fwd: BulkRegister partners with New.Net
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> >
> > On 2 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > .org was the true "catch all" TLD for anything that didn't fit elsewhere
> > > for whatever reason.
> >
> > You can try rewriting history but not today. Thos of us who know the
> > history and were there know .org was for Organizations and .COM was that
> > "catch all" generic tld. Maybe your confused with your history lesson.
> >
> > regards
> > joe baptista
> >
> > Joe Baptista - only at www.baptista.god
> >
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