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In article <1a3mm9INNbkm@yukongold.cs.ubc.ca> phillips@cs.ubc.ca (George Phillips) writes:
>In article <Bv7nqA.Io2@wimsey.bc.ca> sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:

>Why in the world would you want a name that isn't closely related to
>your company or organization?  Admittedly, it's not clear why there need

Beats me. But some people do. An example might be someone who is operating
a UseNet node in their basement and wants to have a domain name. Should they
be forced to create an organization name that fits within the realm of what
the name czar deems appropriate? 

>be geographical tags to the province level, but the names are hardly
>more meaningful than IP numbers so why not have some useful information
>in them?
>
>>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.
>
>Actually, it seems like everyone else in the world has a country-name
>suffix.  I presume the americans don't have a ".us" suffix because
>they were first and didn't really need one at the time.  Do you also
>think ".uk", ".au", ".de", etc. are silly as well?

I didn't say I did. My opinions on this matter are a closely guarded secret :-)

What I said was that some people do. I'll also note that while most places
are using the top level country ISO code as the suffix, most people don't.
I.e. most users are still in the US and they don't follow that convention.

The use of the country code originated with ISO/CCITT and X.400. The .edu/.com
suffix's originated within the Internet community. 

Please note that we DO have a .bc.ca domain address. In fact one of the first
given out to a UUCP site in Canada. Call me a flag waver I guess, cause I'm
certainly not a fan of X.400 :-)


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