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In article <smith.717488576@sfu.ca> smith@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard Smith) writes:
>brougham@fraser.sfu.ca (Chris Brougham) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Sep25.222336.28015@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
>
>>>the dark ages. Only a few big US Universities, and a coupld of Canadian
>>>ones were part of the .edu domain. Some others were .mil .gov .net 
>>>
>>>
>>>If UNBC is a real university, it would get .unbc.ca according to convention.
>>>A college would get unbc.bc.ca
>
>>Oh if it's just a UUCP node they could call it pretty well anything. When
>>they get onto BCNet it'll be fixed upped. Yeh it's a real university for sure.
>
>Don't be too sure. I am not sure what is driving it, but both Waterloo
>and U of T are advertising internet addresses which include the .edu
>part. It seems like posturing, to me, and an attempt to distinguish
>themselves from all the 'riff raff' colleges and private groups in
>.ca, and also cosy up to the big American universities. (There, that
>should irritate someone...)
>
>Check out, if you want, addresses like "library.toronto.edu" and
>"steam.waterloo.edu". Just to name two that come to mind.

I have no personal knowledge however about why unbc.edu was selected.

There is a bit more "control" of the .ca namespace than some people like.

E.g. as mentioned above it is difficult for some sites to get XXX.ca and
instead have something like XXX.bc.ca. To get something in the .com/.edu
etc domains you just apply for it. If it's not a mis-representing yourself
and no-one else has it you'll probably get it. It is also hard to select a 
domain name in .ca that doesn't closely relate to the name of your company 
or organization. 

So if you want to be darkhorse.ca you had better be a company called Darkhorse 
Ltd that operates nationally. If you want to be darkhorse.com you just have 
to make sure no-one else has registered it.

There are also more than a few people who believe that .ca is a bit silly
and that we should be using the americian domains period.


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