[10725] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain Name NASA.COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sat Jul 12 17:55:21 1997
To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Jul 1997 14:04:52 PDT."
<3.0.3.32.19970712140452.0083ca20@localhost>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 17:48:10 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Brian Behlendorf writes:
> I think there's one very clear fact which shows that "nasa.com" was
> intended to be used for those mistyping the URL. Remember that
> "www.jpl.nasa.gov" was the URL given out everywhere for the Mars missions.
Yeah, and we've had companies as supposedly large and mature as AT&T
and MCI fighting each other with 1-800-OPERATOR and 1-800-OPERATER
.pm
