[2606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAVYJOBS.COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Riordan)
Mon Apr 22 15:26:06 1996
From: John Riordan <john@interport.net>
To: smd@smdbox.icp.net (Sean Doran)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 15:06:24 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604220136.SAA00348@smdbox.icp.net> from "Sean Doran" at Apr 21, 96 06:36:17 pm
> 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.
The Navy Recruiting web site, and all the other Navy Recruiting stuff -
print, TV, radio, etc - is produced by an advertising agency. Apparently
a lot of the Navy recruiting effort is out sourced.
While I did not contribute to the decision making with regard to the
choice of domain (it was decided before the agency awarded the hosting
contract to us), I asked the people here who work with the agency on
the contract if they knew why the agency decided on a .com domain
instead of a .mil or .gov. So what follows is hearsay...
Apparently there was a lot of consideration given to the domain name for
the web site and after some debate over using the existing navy.mil
or a new .com it was decided to go with a new .com domain. Aside from
the complications arising from getting the navy's cooperation with regard
to having a commercial organization running a web site in the navy.mil
domain from a technical standpoint, from the ad agencies point of view
there was a desire to keep the recruiting web site operations as
separate from any military operations as possible for a bunch of
logistical and bureaucratic reasons.
John Riordan
Interport Communications Corp.
