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Eric Germann wrote: > At 09:53 AM 6/10/98 -0700, Michael Dillon wrote: > >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. > > Well, if one draws ones references from "DNS and BIND" (First Edition) by > Albitz and Liu, which is widely accepted as a definitive resource on DNS, > on page 21, the refer to .org as "Non-commercial organizations, like the > Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org)". This is further propogated in > the Second Edition on page 18. > > RFC 1591 which defines it as a miscellaneous TLD came along two years later. > > RFC 920 (1984) defines it for domains that don't fall under the .COM, .NET, > .GOV, etc, singling out commercial entities for .COM exclusively. That > kinda leaves .org for noncommercials by inference. Well, yes, but RFC1366 also says hosts with >32 subnets and 4096 hosts qualify for a Class B. :) When I want to go back and look at "what used to be" (the good old days) I grab my red book. I got it from SRI.. they published it in 1992. They list: COM This is the domain for commercial businesses and organizations that make a profit through a service or sale a product[sic]. This is the largest top-level domain. EDU This domain is for degree-granting educational institutions, such as colleges; universities; community colleges; libraries; research institutes; astronomical observatories; (blah blah). GOV This domain is for non-military national government organizations, e.g. Veterans Administration, Department of Energy, national laboaratories such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. State governments also fit under this domain at the second-level, e.g. CA.GOV or HAWAII.GOV. State agencies should be registered at the third level, e.g. WATER-DEPARTMENT.CA.GOV[...] MIL This is the domain for U.S. military organizations. [...] NET This is the domain for backbone systems - NICs, NOCs, gateways, etc. Only machines necessary for the actual operation of the network can be registered within this domain. ORG This is the domain for not-for-profit organizations. Any profit-making organization does not belong in this domain. It is also for technical- support groups; professional societies and associations; and computer users' groups. ORG also exists as a parent to subdomains that do not clearly fall under the other top-level domains. US The US domain is a top-level domain created for people in the US who have computers at home, or small local corporations who wanted to register their hosts geographically. > Then again, there used to be a requirement to have OPERATIONAL name servers > when registering a domain, but that seems to have gotten historically > revised away also when $$$ entered the picture. But I digress... Yeah. I actually talked with someone this AM about that. I think I'm going to walk the DNS again to look for lame servers. I'll post a summary here whenever I get around to doing it. :) -jamie /12-line sigfile deleted -- jamie rishaw (dal/efnet:gavroche) American Information Systems, Inc. rdm: "Religion is obsolete." gsr: "By what?" jgr: "Solaris." (1996) Tel:312.425.7140, FAX:312.425.7240
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