Re: [atlarge-discuss] Advice sought

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Daniel and all fellow members,

Daniel R. Tobias wrote:

> On 24 Jun 2003 at 21:39, Jeff Williams wrote:
>
> > Daniel and all fellow members,
> >
> >   .COM Domain names are not and never have been implied as
> > "Commercial" entities.  But it is a common mistake by less
> > knowledgeable stakeholders to consider it that way.
> > .COM is a gTLD...
>
> >From RFC 1591:
> http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1591.html
>
>      World Wide Generic Domains:
>
>     COM - This domain is intended for commercial entities, that is
> companies. This domain has grown very large and there is concern
> about the administrative load and system performance if the current
> growth pattern is continued. Consideration is being taken to
> subdivide the COM domain and only allow future commercial
> registrations in the subdomains.

  Exactly right! None the less .COM has been triditionally
used as a "Catch all" as has .ORG and .NET for many years
and most existing registrations in .COM are not commercial
in nature.  I for instance have had three Domains registered
in .COM for 7 years or more and none are commercial.

>
>
>     EDU - This domain was originally intended for all educational
> institutions. Many Universities, colleges, schools, educational
> service organizations, and educational consortia have registered
> here. More recently a decision has been taken to limit further
> registrations to 4 year colleges and universities. Schools and 2-year
> colleges will be registered in the country domains (see US Domain,
> especially K12 and CC, below).
>
>     NET - This domain is intended to hold only the computers of
> network providers, that is the NIC and NOC computers, the
>     administrative computers, and the network node computers. The
> customers of the network provider would have domain names of their
> own (not in the NET TLD).
>
>     ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for
> organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non- government
> organizations may fit here.
>
>     INT - This domain is for organizations established by
> international treaties, or international databases.
>
>     United States Only Generic Domains:
>
>     GOV - This domain was originally intended for any kind of
> government office or agency. More recently a decision was taken to
> register only agencies of the US Federal government in this domain.
> State and local agencies are registered in the country
>
>     MIL - This domain is used by the US military.
>
> --
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Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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