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From: Mountain Man
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:00
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I have three questions about domain name conventions for anyone who is able to assist ..... Suppose there exists an international company called "GLOBALCO". (1) If an internet domain name for "globalco" was applied for in Australia, is it obligatory that the domain name have the extention of ".au" such that the full domain name becomes "globalco.com.au"??? Can the ".au" be dropped??? (2) Conversely, should I see a domain name "AnotherCo.com.np" I might hazzard a guess that this was registered in Nepal (eg). (3) Finally, if a domain name has NO country-code, can it be assumed that this company is in the USA (with no .us by default), and if so, are there many exceptions to this rule? [nb: .com only - not .net] Thanks in advance. Pete Brown ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BoomerangOutPost: Mountain Man Graphics, Australia SnailMail: PO Box 194, Newport Beach, NSW 2106 WWW (URL): http://magna.com.au/~prfbrown/welcome.html QuoteForTheDay: "All things are Connected" - Chief Seattle (1854) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107651,696fb87be21247b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid107651,public From: Mountain Man <prfbrown@magna.com.au> Subject: Conventions in the .COM domain - 3Qs4U .... Date: 1996/04/03 Message-ID: <3163474F.4766@magna.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 145603288 content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Mountain Man Graphics, Australia mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: aus.net.status x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I)