[17743] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WorldNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Wed Jun 10 12:57:57 1998
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:53:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980610120024.45288@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 11:53:42PM -0400, Steve Sobol wrote:
> > .org was never meant as a domain for nonprofits; it was meant as a
> > catchall to be used when your organization didn't fit into .com, .net,
> > .edu or .gov.
>
> Do you have a reference for that Steven? It doesn't match what I
> remember...
The MITRE Corporation registered mitre.org in 1985 and the Aerospace
Corporation registered aero.org in 1987. This idea that .ORG was only for
non-profit organizations is an example of historical revisionism
propogated by people who were not there at the time the TLDs were created.
--
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: michael@memra.com
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