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smith@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard Smith) writes:
| 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.

 As has been mentioned, both the University of Toronto and the
University of Waterloo obtained their (Internet) domain names before
they could possibly have gotten '.ca' names; exactly what .ca was going
to be and what its naming conventions would be and who would run it and
so on were busy being debated at length at that point. Indeed, I
believe that it was unclear whether or not there would *ever* be a
usable .ca domain.  The University of Waterloo is in fact no longer
supporting the waterloo.edu names except for electronic mail.

 Generally, it isn't always obvious whether one should get a
geographical domain name or a functional one. Typically, very few
organizations actually *are* geographically restricted (ironically,
universities are one of them); everyone else is usually better off
served by a functional name. If you have a functional name, you aren't
bothered by moving or expanding across borders, an event which is more
common than you might think.

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