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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!sl
- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: Domain naming conventions
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:31:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <C09884.KAG@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1993Jan2.195509.27735@tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> <C08zs2.4uG@wimsey.bc.ca> <1993Jan2.234428.886@cs.UAlberta.CA>
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- In article <1993Jan2.234428.886@cs.UAlberta.CA> cdshaw@cs.UAlberta.CA (Chris Shaw) writes:
- >In article <C08zs2.4uG@wimsey.bc.ca> sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:
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- >Look. When I started using EMail in 1982, there weren't a lot of sites, and
- >long site names seemed dumb. Now that there are one hundred thousand or
- >so distinct domains (or whatever it is), it's foolish to demand 6 letter site
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- Maybe 10,000. There are about 500 in .US. About 450 in .CA. About 5500 in .Com.
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