.US domain myth (Re: [icann-eu] 'The nuclear arsenal')

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 20:06 24/11/2000 +0100, Jefsey Morfin wrote:
>-  MicroSoft is an important player to consider. Obviously MS has
>    decided to take over ".net" (in naming ".Net" its main Internet
>    product). This means an increased power of NSI and may be
>    an alliance Robert Beyster's people/Bill Gates. The impact on
>    the strategy described by this article is obvious: creating an
>    alternative net is fine, but who would be the leader in the USA
>    (".us" is not quite used) and on ".com", ".net", ".info"? On
>    whose side would it be?  The interest of everyone is that the
>    issue is over by the Melbourne meeting. Exciting!

The .us domain has 2.251.445 registered hosts according to the Network 
Wizards hostcount, slightly more than the .uk domain at 2.08 million.

It would be interesting to see reactions to the claim that "the .uk domain 
is not quite used".

http://www.isc.org/ds/WWW-200007/dist-bynum.html

I believe even Bill Gates doesn't imagine that he can move the 7 million 
registered .net domains - he is borrowing their glory, not lending them his.



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