[ih] Dot Com etc

[Scott Brim]

Vint Cerf allegedly wrote on 01/21/2010 24:29 EST:
> not by much. DNS 1984; NSFNET 1986

But the TLDs were already well-established by then.  When we came up
with .NET it was the obvious thing to do.

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> On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
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>>> From: Tony Li <tony.li at tony.li>
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>>> .. back in the day, the NSFnet carried research and educational traffic
>>> and was embargoed from carrying COMmercial traffic.
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>> Didn't the DNS considerably predate NSFnet?
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>> I thought the '.com' was a mix of 'commercial/company'.
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>>     Noel
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