<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Thanks. It's a big help. It might just be one of those little mysteries. How does one get to namedroppers?</div><div><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [ih] Dot Com etc<br>
From: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com><br>
Date: Wed, January 20, 2010 12:27 pm<br>
To: bboliek@catalpacreek.com<br>
Cc: internet-history@postel.org<br>
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> Does anyone know why .com; .edu and .gov were chosen? I know it seems<br>
> simple, but why .com instead of something like .biz?<br>
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I don't know but it happened between April 1984 and October 1984.<br>
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In April 1984 Postel and Reynolds distributed a draft of what became RFC 920.<br>
In that draft they used Grapevine-like naming, so ERNIE.CS.CAL.UC for a<br>
site in the University of California system.<br>
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In October 1984, when RFC 920 came out it specified GOV, EDU, COM, MIL and<br>
ORG. NET came later (Dick Edmiston's and my doing).<br>
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I wish I had copies of the email discussions between April '84 and October '84<br>
but I don't. My guess is that the discussion was in NAMEDROPPERS but I<br>
only have a very limited archive of old NAMEDROPPERS email.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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Craig<br>
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