Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ucbvax!SAYSHELL.UMD.EDU!louie From: louie@SAYSHELL.UMD.EDU ("Louis A. Mamakos") Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: Who may register in the .org domain? Message-ID: <9104181657.AA10051@sayshell.umd.edu> Date: 18 Apr 91 16:57:48 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 > Interesting. Do you have the appropriate chapter and verse of the NIC > guidelines that recommends this treatment? (I presume all existing > .org's will be grandfathered in.) Existing practice has allowed > unincorporated entities like the "Michigan Unix Users Group" to set up > mail park domains and share service costs among the membership; I > would hope that NIC rules would not outlaw these "mail parks" or force > all such organizations to register each of their individual members in > the .US domain. One problem with registering under the .US domain is that the folks that run it will not delagate subdomains to other servers. This leaves those of us that want a piece of the namespace delagated to our own server(s) little choice but to consider .ORG when we are not a commercial enterprise. How do I register my computers at home to a server that I have control over? louie