[ih] Dot Com etc

[Richard Bennett]

In a way, the segmentation of the namespace via TLDs follows the logic 
of the segmentation of ARPANET into Milnet and everthing else.

On 1/20/2010 1:39 PM, John Levine wrote:
>> Far as I can tell, the only advantage of the TLD cluster we have is that
>> it simplifies the name management contracting space. If that's not an
>> issue, a pure Grapevine seems to make a lot more sense. Given that
>> everybody wants a .com, even for non-profits, we're essentially still
>> using ARPANET host names anyhow.
>>      
> My recollection is that the original idea was that the first and second
> levels would be fairly small, and names would be long, e.g.
> wks12.compsci.berkeley.uc.edu.
>
> I think that all changed when Mosaic or maybe Netscape treated "foo"
> in the address box as "foo.com".  So I guess it's Marc Andreesen's
> fault.
>
> R's,
> John
>    

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Richard Bennett
Research Fellow
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington, DC