At 12:18 PM 8/12/99 -0400, Marc Hurst wrote: >> >> I'm just pointing this out, we'll "do the right thing" and relinquish >> .etc if someone has a preceding claim and actually intends to do >> something with it at some point. >> >> We also have FYI: .can, .php, .y2k and .666 > >Actually ".can" was laid claim to by myself, ORSC and eDNS to be run as a >free alternative to the ".ca" registry. We have been awaiting the fallout >of the ".ca" reorganization to determine if investing the effort would be >worthwhile. Richard Sexton can give you more background on this. > >I believe the ".can" registry was entered into the eDNS root on July 1st, >1997. > >Marc Hurst No, that was .CDN. Mark asked me frst about that and I told him the .CDN committe which at the time was you, Marc, Tim Gibson and Dave Ian Greig were running it, so he picked .can This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing. Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny]
