[9598] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL Expansion proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Barry)
Sun Jan 14 01:17:32 1996
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 17:03:15 +1100
To: idelrio@abstraction.com (Israel del Rio)
From: tony@info.anu.edu.au (Tony Barry)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
At 10:57 96/01/14, Israel del Rio wrote:
>My proposal is to agree on expanding the first * (asterisk) in
>a URL to "http://www."; the second asterisk to ".com/"
>and any subsequent * to a slash. That way,
>a user typing *companyname* in a URL field would actually be
>sending the entire URL.
This might be fine for the *.com domain but what about the *.com.au and the
other 100+ countries on the web besides the USA?? Also I don't think "com"
is used by all countries to indicate their commercial sector.
Tony
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