[DNS] france ditches magic number requirement Re: Domain dispute heats up

From: Stephen Rothwell <ausdns§rothwell.emu.id.au> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:21:38 +1000 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Sat Sep 09 2017 - 22:00:08 UTC

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:01:53 +1000 Vic Cinc <vicc&#167;cia.com.au> wrote:
>
> Edwin Groothuis [edwin&#167;mavetju.org] wrote:
> > Last time I checked .org was a *global* top-level domain, not to
> > be confused with the .us domain which is a *country* coded top level
> > domain.
> 
> wrong again. live and learn.
> 
> U.S. to retain control of Internet domain names
> http://news.com.com/U.S.+to+retain+control+of+Internet+domain+names/2100-1028_3-5770937.html

which implies that .au is also a US domain as the US Government has just as much
control over it as it does .org ...

[Yes, I am being frivilous, you can ignore this]

Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell