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Article #4464Re: determining domain type
From: lamy
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1987 17:47
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1987 17:47
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The world has been partitioned in a number of top-level domains, and
absolute addresses are defined in relation to these domains. As of this
writing, top-level domains include at least
au Australia jp Japan
ca Canada kr Republic of Korea
ch Switzerland mil Internet Military
com Internet Commercial net Internet Networks
de West Germany nl Netherlands
edu Internet Educational org Internet Organizations
fi Finland se Sweden
fr France uk United Kingdom Network
gov Internet Government us Internet Unites States
il Israel
Until the transition to network-independent domains is complete, the following
pseudo top-level domains are often seen. Their purpose is to allow the
specification of addresses independently of the actual route:
arpa DARPA Internet irl Irish Research Network
bitnet Because It's There Network isanet Iceland
cdn Canadian Research Network mailnet EDUCOM Network (dead)
cern CERN, Switzerland mlnet University of Western Ontario
chunet Swiss University Network osiride Italian Research Networks
csnet Computer Science Network oz Australian University Network
dfn German Research Network sunet Swedish University Network
dunet Danish University Network surfnet Netherlands Research Network
funet Finnish University Network uninett Norwegian University Network
iris Spanish Research Network uucp Unix Network
Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.toronto.edu, lamy@ai.utoronto
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science lamy%ai.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net
University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 {uunet,watmath}!ai.toronto.edu!lamy
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!utegc!lamy From: lamy@utegc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: determining domain type Message-ID: <8710261746.AA21439@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 12:47:04 EST Article-I.D.: ephemera.8710261746.AA21439 Posted: Mon Oct 26 12:47:04 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 07:02:18 EST Organization: University of Toronto, AI group Lines: 34 Checksum: 49450