Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: UUPSI's new rules Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 18:47:37 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> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 23 >> Could you expand on that a bit? Given some "place.com", what, or who, >> is or is not permitted by the "laws of the Internet" to be within that >> domain? 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. Who or what assumes this? Is this assumption actually written down anywhere? There are currently whole domain parks and regional organizations that have .com domains. This wasn't a problem when they were first created, and I haven't seen anything announced since then that implies it is has become illegal. 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. --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz