Re: WorldNIC

[Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>]

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 11:53:42PM -0400, Steve Sobol wrote:
> > .org was never meant as a domain for nonprofits; it was meant as a
> > catchall to be used when your organization didn't fit into .com, .net,
> > .edu or .gov.
>
> Do you have a reference for that Steven?  It doesn't match what I
> remember...

The MITRE Corporation registered mitre.org in 1985 and the Aerospace
Corporation registered aero.org in 1987. This idea that .ORG was only for
non-profit organizations is an example of historical revisionism
propogated by people who were not there at the time the TLDs were created.

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