Different countries have .uk, .de etc. as designators
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You have got .us as a country-specific domain name, but don't see it used too often.
tehdarkstar
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Because the internet was "born" over there you had the priviledge of choosing not to use your country's designation... 
PS: The "born" in quotes is merely due to the fact that the internet wasn't born at one point in time, but was an evolution of earlier networks and protocols that took some time to happen.
PS: The "born" in quotes is merely due to the fact that the internet wasn't born at one point in time, but was an evolution of earlier networks and protocols that took some time to happen.
tehdarkstar said:Because the internet was "born" over there you had the priviledge of choosing not to use your country's designation...
PS: The "born" in quotes is merely due to the fact that the internet wasn't born at one point in time, but was an evolution of earlier networks and protocols that took some time to happen.
Everybody knows that's not true....Al Gore invented the Internet
tehdarkstar
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Sorry to be picky, but .com does derive from commercial, as .edu is from educational, .gov from government. Even as .com, .edu and .org are top-level domains, they are at the same level as .it, .uk, .br and .us for that matter.
The country-specific top-level domains came along only when the internet became widespread accross the globe, but at that point the US had already many domains registered without country references. It is common therefore for US sites to use these domains, but it's not a rule as many British companies do use .com as well.
The .COM extension in MS-DOS has no relation to the .com top-level domain.
The country-specific top-level domains came along only when the internet became widespread accross the globe, but at that point the US had already many domains registered without country references. It is common therefore for US sites to use these domains, but it's not a rule as many British companies do use .com as well.
The .COM extension in MS-DOS has no relation to the .com top-level domain.
Correct and I pointed that out because you can find sources that make that claim. Concerning the MS-DOS reference that is simply one of many places when "COM" appears in the world of computers and internet. I am not sure anyone has ID'ed the source of .com.tehdarkstar said:
zee42 said:Everybody knows that's not true....Al Gore invented the Internet
Isn't the internet just a series of tubes? :lol:
Hey, it's no joke! Listen to Senator Ted Stevens, will ya? He's the smartest man on the earth!zee42 said:see Rick...there you go again,over filling that crack pipe and trying to huff it all at one time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB2Xnu9xQVU
