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Carl Forsythe carlf at mbay.net
Mon Apr 22 16:19:39 UTC 1996


Avi Freedman spoke from the ethers and said:
> 
> > > I was happily watching the hockey playoffs just now
> > > (well, as happily as possible without Hockey Night in Canada),
> > > and noticed a commercial for U.S. Navy Recruiting.
> > > 
> > > Why why why why why are they in .COM?!
> > > 
> > > I think we should be told.
> > > 
> > > 	Sean.
> > 
> > Maybe they were hassled about a .GOV and needed to go online ASAP.
> > 
> > Avi
> 
> By the way, that wasn't an editorial comment, just a hypothesis...
> Better that people be hassled about .GOVs, .NETs, and .EDUs than
> that they have those domains yanked at some point in the future...
> 
> Avi
> 
I reckon it may be because the MilNet Domain Maintainers for the services
are loathe to give out a .mil address to a commercial ISP. We ran into 
that with a client from the Army. They wanted a virtual server, but the 
Army wouldn't assign a .mil address for them.

-Carl


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