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From: thorinn@DIKU.DK (Lars Henrik Mathiesen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Domains Registered in November 1990
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Date: 6 Dec 90 08:15:00 GMT
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   From: MH 6.6 (Eric Brunner) <brunner@bullhead.UUCP>

   first, the use of "ZA" for the UNINET Project, ...

The compiler of this list (or his automatic information gatherer) is
very trusting of some source of information, probably the NIC:

    Whois: domain za
    UNINET Project (ZA-DOM)
       Foundation for Research Development
       P.O. Box 2600
       Pretoria 0001
       REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

       Domain Name: ZA

       Administrative Contact:
	  Shaw, Vic  (VS59)  uninet@FRD.AC.ZA
	  +27 12 841 3542
       Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
	  Jacot-Guillarmod, Francois  (FJG4)  ccfj@quagga.ru.ac.za
	  +27 461 22023 ext 284

       Record last updated on 07-Nov-90.

       Domain servers in listed order:

       SAQQARA.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU   128.146.8.98
       PLAINS.NODAK.EDU             134.129.111.64

       Top-level domain for the Republic of South Africa

       For information concerning this domain, please consult
       the Administrative Contact listed above.
    Whois:

This often happens with other domains on the list: Some part of an
organization needs Internet access, and registers a domain with a name
corresponding to the whole organization; but the information
registered for the domain shows only the suborganization.

Actually, even long-established country domains may have strange
descriptions:

    Dansk UNIX-system Bruger Gruppe (DK-DOM)

    UK Domain (UK-DOM)
	University College London (AC-DOM)

--
Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U of Copenhagen, Denmark      [uunet!]mcsun!diku!thorinn
Institute of Datalogy -- we're scientists, not engineers.      thorinn@diku.dk