On Thu August 25 2005 2:08 pm, Kevanf1 wrote:
Isn't the .com designation a special case? I know it's generally attributed to the US but it was this way because it was the first domain. Or am I wrong in this assumption? well, go made me wonder, so I did a GOOGLE search and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain
History When generic top-level domains were first implemented, in January 1985, there were six: * .com * .edu * .gov * .net * .org * .mil While .net was not listed in the original RFC document describing the domain name system, it was added by the time the first group of names were implemented. The .com, .net, and .org gTLDs, despite their original different uses, are now in practice open for use by anybody for any purpose. In November 1988, another gTLD was introduced, .int. This gTLD was introduced in response to NATO's request for a domain name which adequately reflected its character as an international organization. It is also used for some Internet infrastructure databases, such as .ip6.int, the IPv6 equivalent of .in-addr.arpa. However, in May 2000, the Internet Architecture Board proposed to close the .int domain to new infrastructure databases. All future such databases would be created in .arpa (a legacy of the pre-TLD system), and existing ones would move to .arpa wherever feasible. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc