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- From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
- Subject: Re: Top level domains (was Re: Mixed format addresses)
- Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:52:29 GMT
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- References: <+j4NrAsCBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <KENJI.92Dec18132856@daemun.rcac.astem.or.jp> <xbe1Hq_5cb@atlantis.psu.edu> <MUV93JB@heaven7.in-berlin.de> <BzsMop.423@wang.com> <6IcPrAtMBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au>
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- > >> I'd love to see all the USA Universities move to .edu.us and the USA
- > >> only companies (ie: not sun.com, hp.com, etc) move to .com.us, but I
- > >> don't see it happening.
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- > In <BzsMop.423@wang.com> fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
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- > >It won't. For one thing, the .org, .com etc. domains, which everyone
- > >assumes are all US organizations, in fact contain a bunch of non-US
- > >organizations that don't want to register under their national domain.
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- djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel) writes:
-
- > I know this, that's why I said "USA only companies".
-
- I was assuming that "USA only companies" was a null set. The suggestion
- seems to be that companies registering a domain have to pick the top-level:
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- - .US if they have no foreign office and will never have one;
- - .whatever if they have a foreign office or might ever get one.
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- All companies are going to go with choice 2 so as not to limit their future
- choices. If they get a .US domain and then want to open up a sales office
- in Canada, do they have to change their mailing address?
-
- > >Several of Wang's foreign subsidiaries are under <country>.wang.com; this
- > >is fine, but I'd hate to have to move them to <country>.wang.com.us.
-
- > Of course not. Wang is in the same boat as Sun, DEC, IBM, HP, Kodak
- > and probably a whole bunch of others I don't know about in Aus.
-
- "A whole bunch of others" is right. We're talking about every major US
- company. Who's left to reregister in .US? Grocery stores?
-
- > EDU is a simpler case -- I assume there are no (or very few) Uni's
- > or equivalent which span national boundaries. But there would need
- > to be separate COM. and COM.US. if this reorganisation were to happen.
-
- Then everyone will stay in .COM.
-
- > And GOV should theoretically be used by the UN (or whatever else claims
- > to be a World Government) rather than being monopolised by the USA.
-
- Hm. This is a good point.
-
- --
- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com "I went to the universe today;
- 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA It was closed...."
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