Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: UUPSI's new rules Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 21:51:51 GMT References: <1991Mar14.052623.26604@jpradley.jpr.com> <1991Mar14.170247.10965@uu.psi.com> <1991Mar18.023911.18805@jpradley.jpr.com> <1991Mar18.162458.6587@uu.psi.com> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: fitz@wang.com's message of 21 Mar 91 18:47:37 GMT In article fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall) writes: > It is assumed that "place" is a registered corporation, limited partnership, > or some such for-profit entitity regulated inside some jurisdiction of the US > (like a State, commonwealth, or territory). This organization is expected > to generate names under its registered domain "place.com". No other > organization or individual is to generate names with this domain. not true. my internet managers phonebook records a "pcs.com" which is in Germany. I believe that the NIC will not refuse to register anyone in .com as long as they fill out the forms right. They will refuse to register for-profit firms in ".org" and non-degree-granting institutions in ".edu"; I think you need to jump through special hoops to be a .net. heck, there's even Canadian and German .edu sites (free trade agreements at work). Currently, it looks to me like the *.mn.org, *.mv.com and *.assabet.com domains exist specifically to share a domain, and that's it. I also see .wa.com operating in this manner; looks like a * MX record pointing to UUNET. Which means no doubt that they are paying by the hour rather than by the month for their service ... -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com