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Re: Domain name organization recommendation

2000-07-24 09:10:02


Masataka Ohta wrote:

Andre;

 I was wondering if anybody has written a documentation that examines
 the usability of national domain names and provides advice on what
 approaches are actually useable.

It highly depends on locale that generic document is harmful.

For example, I recently had a
discussion
 with some people on the .us domain on how unusable it is due to the
length
 of the domain names - myco.mytown.mystate.us. How about having .com.us,

Try to use <zip-code>.us.

 .edu.us, and accepting that anything without a country extension is
should
 now be reserved for international use, contrary to what the original
RFC
 said on the use of the .com, .edu, .gov domain names.

Huh?

.com etc. have been international, from the beginning.

If you read the following RFC: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1591.txt
you will
see there are limitations to which the USA has privilege. Has this
document
been revised?

Andre