[12613] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

How about .fam top-level domain?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Tue May 24 14:15:49 1994

Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 09:45:26 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: "Robert G. Moskowitz"'s message of Mon, 23 May 94 23:37 EST <20940524043702/0003858921NA4EM@mcimail.com>


>>				      Since families, like companies and
>>what-not, pretty much ignore geographic boundaries, it might make
>>sense to give them nongeographic domains.

>>And what about all of the smith.fam?  

Well, sure, you'd have to subdivide.  I'm just saying family name
could be the basis of the domain, not the whole thing.  So
thibault.fam was probably a bad example.  :-)

>				       And all of the many ways of spelling
>moskowitz.fam (or moscowitz.fam or moskovitz.fam...).

True, this gets harder.

/===========================================================================\
|John (Francis) Stracke  | My opinions are my own.                          |
|InSoft, Inc.            |==================================================|
|Mechanicsburg, PA       | "What now, Brain?" "We should flee in terror.    |
|francis@insoft.com      | Yes, that would be the wisest course."           |
\===========================================================================/

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post