[8940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Read this...Re: offtopic for NANOG - do not read
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Kann)
Tue Apr 29 11:52:27 1997
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:34:33 -0400
From: Steve Kann <stevek@SteveK.COM>
To: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@Unir.Corp>
Cc: Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>,
Geoff White <geoffw@precipice.v-site.net>,
Karl Denninger <karl@MCS.Net>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"newdom@ar.com" <newdom@ar.com>, Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BC5259.9ADD69A0@webster.unety.net>; from Jim Fleming on Sat, Apr 26, 1997 at 03:50:44PM -0500
On Sat, Apr 26, 1997 at 03:50:44PM -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
> People and companies can now register in
> other domains than .COM.
>
> Why would a company want a .COM domain
> when they can have something more expressive ?
Because when users on 99% of the internet send mail to them, it will
work. As opposed to when they send mail to you, and get back this
confusing message telling them that the domain name "unir.corp" cannot
be found, and that their mail cannot be delivered.
It seems to me that that would only express to the consumer that the
business they're trying to contact doesn't know how to connect to the
internet.
Luckily, no one that I support has come to me asking why they can't
access a domain outside of the traditional TLDs. They'd probably just
think it was a typo anyways.
-SteveK
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