[2604] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAVYJOBS.COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Forsythe)
Mon Apr 22 11:25:22 1996
From: Carl Forsythe <carlf@mbay.net>
To: freedman@netaxs.com (Avi Freedman)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 08:19:39 -0800 (PST)
Cc: freedman@netaxs.com, smd@smdbox.icp.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604220448.AAA11344@netaxs.com> from "Avi Freedman" at Apr 22, 96 00:48:05 am
Avi Freedman spoke from the ethers and said:
>
> > > I was happily watching the hockey playoffs just now
> > > (well, as happily as possible without Hockey Night in Canada),
> > > and noticed a commercial for U.S. Navy Recruiting.
> > >
> > > Why why why why why are they in .COM?!
> > >
> > > I think we should be told.
> > >
> > > Sean.
> >
> > Maybe they were hassled about a .GOV and needed to go online ASAP.
> >
> > Avi
>
> By the way, that wasn't an editorial comment, just a hypothesis...
> Better that people be hassled about .GOVs, .NETs, and .EDUs than
> that they have those domains yanked at some point in the future...
>
> Avi
>
I reckon it may be because the MilNet Domain Maintainers for the services
are loathe to give out a .mil address to a commercial ISP. We ran into
that with a client from the Army. They wanted a virtual server, but the
Army wouldn't assign a .mil address for them.
-Carl
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