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From: wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill "Spam Eggs Sausage and Spam" Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to sign-up a host in the .US Domain.
Message-ID: <4879@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 22 Jul 88 00:41:49 GMT
References: <8807141838.0.UUL1.3#948@Fernwood.MPK.CA.US> <3441@palo-alto.DEC.COM> <1096@maynard.BSW.COM> <1477@spdcc.COM> <410190450@nwnexus.WA.COM> <694@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill Wisner)
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In article <694@cbnews.ATT.COM> tgt@cbnews.ATT.COM (Tim Thompson) writes:
>On the other hand, if the .US domain is designed for just anyone, then I think
>the assignment of domain names on geographic location is silly. How does a
>large multi-state (or multi-national) company decide which domain to go
>into under the .US naming scheme?

A large multi-state (or multi-national) company goes into the .COM domain.
Period. They would, in all likelihood, be rejected from .US.
-- 
Bill Wisner
wisner@killer.dallas.tx.us
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