On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 04:32:09PM -0400, A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
> At 03:52 PM 4/28/99 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>
> > > >Neither of those are commercially used.
> >...
> > > It is one of most heavily used (commercially) TLDs as it's employed
> >...
>
> >And? It's uncontested and uncommercial.
> We're getting into some might fine semantics here. :-)
The names in the in-addr space are mapped to IP addresses in a
completely deterministic way. Proper administration of a normal
domain name ties the appropriate in-addr record to it.
> It's sure commercially used and commercially relevant.
> One could argue perhaps even more than com, org, and net.
One could argue almost anything, if one is not afraid of making a
fool of oneself.
> It's uncontested because few people know about it,
> clueless about its marketplace value, and haven't
> factored it into business plans. Then they have
> to cut a deal with the ISPs and IP Address registrars
> to maintain it. It will happen....
Thanks for the entertainment :-)
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