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Re: NAVYJOBS.COM
From: John Riordan <john () interport net>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 15:06:24 -0400 (EDT)
I was happily watching the hockey playoffs just now (well, as happily as possible without Hockey Night in Canada), and noticed a commercial for U.S. Navy Recruiting. Why why why why why are they in .COM?! I think we should be told. Sean.
The Navy Recruiting web site, and all the other Navy Recruiting stuff - print, TV, radio, etc - is produced by an advertising agency. Apparently a lot of the Navy recruiting effort is out sourced. While I did not contribute to the decision making with regard to the choice of domain (it was decided before the agency awarded the hosting contract to us), I asked the people here who work with the agency on the contract if they knew why the agency decided on a .com domain instead of a .mil or .gov. So what follows is hearsay... Apparently there was a lot of consideration given to the domain name for the web site and after some debate over using the existing navy.mil or a new .com it was decided to go with a new .com domain. Aside from the complications arising from getting the navy's cooperation with regard to having a commercial organization running a web site in the navy.mil domain from a technical standpoint, from the ad agencies point of view there was a desire to keep the recruiting web site operations as separate from any military operations as possible for a bunch of logistical and bureaucratic reasons. John Riordan Interport Communications Corp.
Current thread:
- NAVYJOBS.COM Sean Doran (Apr 21)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Jake Khuon (Apr 21)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Avi Freedman (Apr 21)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Avi Freedman (Apr 21)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Carl Forsythe (Apr 22)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Avi Freedman (Apr 21)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Dalvenjah FoxFire (Apr 21)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM John Riordan (Apr 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Scott Bradner (Apr 21)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Steven Schnell (Apr 22)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Michael A. Patton (Apr 22)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Steven Schnell (Apr 22)
- RE: NAVYJOBS.COM Jim Fleming (Apr 22)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Sean Doran (Apr 22)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Michael Dillon (Apr 22)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Jeremy Porter (Apr 22)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Paul A Vixie (Apr 22)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Michael Dillon (Apr 22)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Craig A. Huegen (Apr 22)
- Re: NAVYJOBS.COM Michael Dillon (Apr 22)