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Article #77Re: UNBC ... Online? Yes ... And Way Cool!
From: tak
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:39
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:39
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In article <1a3mm9INNbkm@yukongold.cs.ubc.ca> phillips@cs.ubc.ca
(George Phillips) writes:
>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?
Actually, the .us domain exists. Take a look at well.sf.ca.us.
My guess as to why unbc.ca doesn't exist? The domain was probably offered
as unorthernbc.ca "for the sake of the purity of the name space". :-)
I recall the discussion about athabascau.ca vs. au.ca.
--
Tak Ariga, Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto, Canada
tak@doe.utoronto.ca tak@doe.toronto.edu utdoe!tak
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