Anyone know?

I thought .com was for commercial ventures.

3/9/2008 1:38:44 PM

Because everyone would type .com anyway. No one gives a flying fuck about nerds' definitions of terms (1000MB = 1GB). They should buy up both domains, regardless

FYI, the businessman gets it:

http://www.mikebloomberg.com/
http://www.michaelbloomberg.com/
http://www.mikebloomberg.org/
http://www.michaelbloomberg.org

[Edited on March 9, 2008 at 1:47 PM. Reason : .]

3/9/2008 1:43:03 PM

it's a standard that is very loosely followed at best

3/9/2008 1:48:20 PM

Cool.

So there's no legal requirement binding the use of domains to the extension?

3/9/2008 2:31:25 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.org

3/9/2008 2:36:02 PM

i want http://www.joeschmoe.mil

3/9/2008 2:55:21 PM

.mil .gov and .edu are kept locked down

those are about it

3/9/2008 3:57:09 PM

on a related note:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/british-factory.html

Quote :

"A British factory worker has shut down a tourism site he owned at the request of the U.S. air force after he received thousands of e-mails sent to his domain that were meant for military personnel -- among them e-mails with flight plans for Air Force One, the U.S. presidential plane, as well as passwords and military procedures and tactics, according to the BBC. . . . .."

3/9/2008 4:00:47 PM