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> This then baits the question - Are there any other domain names (i.e. CIPS.xx) which we should consider registering?  I am not an
> Internet guru and thought that there are those here who can provide valuable comment.  So thanks in advance.

Last year, our director received an irate call complaining about the content
of the University's web page.  He asked me if the site had been compromised
and there was no evidence of tampering.  It was quite a puzzle until someone
suggested that we just enter unb into the netsite field of the netscape browser
and see what comes up.

Netscape being the sort of friendly program it is will attempt to build a valid
URL from minimal information.  It will stick "http://www." at the beginning and,
apparently, try a number of the common top level domains looking for a DNS
entry.  At the time, I believe there was a  www.unb.com  on which an employee
had put up some "naughty" stuff unbeknownst to the company.  When contacted,
the company said they would shut down the site.

I just tried it again and find there's a  www.unb.net  (Uniform Name Badges)
with a relatively plain company page.

I don't know what order netscape goes through the top level domains nor
whether internet explorer uses a different order, however, it's probably a
good idea for people concerned about this aspect of defaults to at least
register the first name in the search and make it a DNS alias for your
real web server.

If you want to be complete, of course, you'll have to cover all the top level
country domains as well as the US organizational domains.  If everyone were
to do this then the top level domain concept would become useless.  It's
already under tremendous strain in the *.com domain.
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O-  J. Anthony Fitzgerald,   jaf@UNB.ca,   http://www.unb.ca/~jaf  -O