[ih] Funny how things work out

[John Lowry]

It looks suspiciously like Relative Distinguished Names with an opportunity for an “authority” at each level.

> On Feb 1, 2021, at 6:32 PM, Joseph Touch via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> On Feb 1, 2021, at 2:48 PM, John Day via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> 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 <http://cardullos.com/>. They are small, they will never be nationwide, let alone worldwide. Why weren’t they asked to take Cardullos.ma.us <http://cardullos.ma.us/>?
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> Why not Cardullos.cambridge.ma.us <http://cardullos.boston.ci.ma.us/>?
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> RFC1480 has some history.
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> One reason is that originally those names were used for government and public entities.
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> At least one reason is that cambridge.ma.us might not have been delegated at the time Cardullos asked. Or ma.us <http://ma.us/> for that matter.
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> Then there’s the issue that Cardullos has another store in Boston, so should they also have cardullos.boston.ma.us <http://cardullos.boston.ma.us/>? Or what happens if they open another in Bristol, VT? (And what makes you think they would never be anything but local?)
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> To answer your original question, “because .com is where companies had DNS names” was the answer for a very long time before there were other domains.
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> Joe
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