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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 11:53:42PM -0400, Steve Sobol wrote: > > .org was never meant as a domain for nonprofits; it was meant as a > > catchall to be used when your organization didn't fit into .com, .net, > > .edu or .gov. > > Do you have a reference for that Steven? It doesn't match what I > remember... The MITRE Corporation registered mitre.org in 1985 and the Aerospace Corporation registered aero.org in 1987. This idea that .ORG was only for non-profit organizations is an example of historical revisionism propogated by people who were not there at the time the TLDs were created. -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: [email protected] http://www.memra.com - *check out the new name & new website*
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