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Re: WorldNIC

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Simpson)
Mon Jun 8 23:43:06 1998

Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 23:35:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Simpson <gws@sweet.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
cc: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980608224621.723q-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>

> cocacola.com when we can get a hundreds or perhaps thousands per year by
> selling the Cocacola company their name in .com, .net, .org, .us, and a
> host of other and future TLDs?"  

What about the "deeper meaning", ie, .org = nonprofit, .net = network 
provider etc, .com = commercial?

Call me a whiner, but I still believe if .com is taken, you shouldn't 
take the .org unless you're truly nonprofit.

-g

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