[17696] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WorldNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue Jun 9 13:10:17 1998
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 12:49:54 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.980608233330.721A-100000@nofear.sweet.com>; from Greg Simpson <gws@sweet.com> on Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:35:08PM -0400
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:35:08PM -0400, Greg Simpson wrote:
> > 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.
"You're a whiner". :-)
Actually, I concur completely. I _will_ give certain types of
non-network-infrastructure sites slack in ".net". "price.net", as a
site for a comparative pricing service site, for example.
But if any commercial enterprises are in .org, then NSI has (completely
unsurprisingly) been flouting it's own rules.
Again.
Cheers,
-- jra
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