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Subject: Re: .bc.ca domain park
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Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 17:25:07 EDT
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In article <10740@orchid.waterloo.edu> egisin@orchid.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin) writes:
# I thought there was a lot of support for second level organizational
# domains expressed in this group over the last couple of months.

There have been various opinions expressed, but the postings to this group
doesn't necessarily represent all the UUCP sites. I'm still largely guided by
the reasoning shown by the comments I received from 50-odd sysadmins when they
were polled a few months ago. I posted a numbers summary from that poll here.

# I can't see more than 20 to 40 sites capable (with an appropriate mailer)
# of registering as second level domain under .ca if where avaible today.

Hmm... the UUCP map has: 25 universities and colleges, 6 home computers,
10-odd government type places, and 80 commercial organizations of widely
varying shapes and sizes. To that we should add the non-UUCP CDNNET,
NetNorth, and DND associated organizations, say 10-20 extra educational and
commercial sites each. That's 200. Right now they can all get mailers that
support domains, all 200-odd of them... not all of them will want to, but
certainly many will.  I know there is a relatively large collection of sites
that are reachable but haven't announced themselves.

I think getting into the multi-thousands in the next 10-20 years is not at
all unrealistic.

# I assume there will be some real costs with running the .ca domain,
# and a fee for second level domains. Is this the case?

Probably. Details not yet worked out.

rayan