[9600] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL Expansion proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Israel del Rio)
Sun Jan 14 01:49:06 1996
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 23:36:37 -0700
From: idelrio@abstraction.com (Israel del Rio)
To: tony@info.anu.edu.au (Tony Barry)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <v02110104ad1e46bb411b@[150.203.148.95]>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Okay, browsers could map the second asterisk to ".com." if
followed by a recognized country code; or to ".com/" if there is
no following name or the name following is not a country code.
A commercial domain in Australia would look as *companyname*au
My proposal is based on the assumption that commercial sites would
follow a strict naming convention in order to gain the benefit of
advertising a simplified address. If they don't; they can always
advertise the full URL just as they do today.
On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, tony@info.anu.edu.au (Tony Barry) wrote:
>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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