[ih] Funny how things work out

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Mon Feb 1 15:55:28 PST 2021


in 1986, I registered the Corporation for National Research Initiatives as
CNRI.reston.va.us

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On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 6:35 PM Scott O. Bradner via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
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> > On Feb 1, 2021, at 5:48 PM, John Day via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > As long as we are harping on these sorts of things, I will throw in my
> pet peeve, not limiting a domain request to something reasonable. For
> example, there is small grocery in Harvard Square called Cardullos. They
> have Cardullos.com. They are small, they will never be nationwide, let
> alone worldwide. Why weren’t they asked to take Cardullos.ma.us?
>
> may because they got the domain in 1996 - before .us was seen as a “real”
> domain?
>
> Scott
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