BK>Responding to David Noon from 1998-12-02 concerning OS/2 C++
BK>Programming?, on Os2prog

BK>Hi David:

DN> Funny looking address. It doesn't have a com, gov, edu or org ahead of the
DN> .de suffix. Still, if I need some support on EMX I'll give it a try.

BK>   Top level Internet domains ideally should all have a
BK>country code, which 'de' is for Deutschland.  The
BK>Americans are the only ones with top level 'gov',
BK>'mil', 'org', 'edu', and 'com', although now Internic
BK>has commercialised 'com', so it is available world
BK>wide, for a fee.  I think the USA should use 'us', but
BK>I have never seen it.

It is there at some level. The U.S. primary, secondary and vocational
school system uses it.  An example is the domain of the Adult school
system in a local California community;

  bpace.k12.ca.us    defined as
   school system name, Kindergarden-12th grade and adult, state of
   California, United States of America.

The U.S.A. college and university system of course still just uses .edu
as a top level with no country indication.  There is probably some obscure
reference that says lack of a country identifier defaults to the U.S.A.
Also I am pretty sure that it is in the name of some of the IRC servers
and a few .net domains like ca.us.ibm.net  etc. but that is not top level
which is what I guess you are talking about.

--Lynn

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