Re: [atlarge-discuss] Advice sought

["Daniel R. Tobias" <dan@tobias.name>]

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.

    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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