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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FYI, The MITRE corporation is a non-profit research company, doing (primarily) research for the USAF. Phil (ex-MITRE employee #19950) > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Michael Dillon > Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 9:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: WorldNIC > > > 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* > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBNX6+zzW2hWRjwTVBEQJq8ACeJ7REJS2iTT5MN/WuFOwpqhsTNkAAnicu Pl1+n01Vb6E9pdyHyEk2dpby =D2LE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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