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Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon () cox net>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:46:09 -0500
On 10/20/2014 17:09, manning bill wrote:
FNC “reserved” .gov and .mil for the US. And Postel was right… there was/is near zero reason to technically extend/expand the number of TLDs.
It appears to this outsider that Postel and others never understood at all that the sole purpose and destiny of what they were inventing was Marketing, with secondary importance in social networking and politics.
-- The unique Characteristics of System Administrators: The fact that they are infallible; and, The fact that they learn from their mistakes. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
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