[31366] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Thu Sep 21 13:57:02 2000
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 03:50:22 -0700
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@netmore.net>
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To: Austin Schutz <tex@gblx.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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What's wrong with being U.S.-centric? While use of the net is growing
in other countries, the U.S. is still the place where the most traffic
originates/terminates, and since this is the *North American* list, it
stands to reason that issues in the U.S. portion of the system will get
more play here.
No, I don't have any statistics,and I'm too lazy to go suss around for
them - maybe .edu is higher than .org. .com & .net are definitely the
top two, though.
Austin Schutz wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:30:01AM +0100, Patrick Evans wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Austin Schutz wrote:
> >
> > > Do you have statistics to back up the 'three most widely-used TLDs'
> > > statement?
> > >
> > > According to www.netsizer.com, org isn't even in the top
> > > ten. I'm not sure upon what they base their data, but I was unable
> > > to find evidence to the contrary.
> > >
> > </pointless pedantry>
> >
> > Hearing anything from netsol before they try to break stuff is both
> > novel and (personally speaking) quite welcome, particularly given the
> > grief they've been given for staying silent about everything in the
> > past.
> >
> > Makes a pleasant change from bitching about ORBS, anyway.
>
> And anything with IANAL anywhere in the message body. My point was
> that assuming that org is the third largest TLD reinforces the u.s.-centric
> belief that the non-u.s. world is insignificant with respect to domain usage.
>
> Austin
>
> p.s. yes I'm aware this message body contains IANAL.
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