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From: wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill "Spam Eggs Sausage and Spam" Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to sign-up a host in the .US Domain.
Message-ID: <4829@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 17 Jul 88 19:14:20 GMT
References: <8807141838.0.UUL1.3#948@Fernwood.MPK.CA.US> <3441@palo-alto.DEC.COM> <1096@maynard.BSW.COM> <1477@spdcc.COM>
Reply-To: wisner@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Organization: HASA
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The US domain is intended for small sites: small businesses, BBSes,
individual systems (what's that Unix-PC stashed in your basement?) and
the like. It is NOT intended for anyone who is already registered in
COM, EDU, or what-have-you. Steve Dyer's remark about sites that
have some difficulty fitting into the existing domain structure also
has some merit. I believe the main rationale was something like "there
are some hosts so small that they're never going to register."

Part of the US domain information I was sent said something to the
effect that if you can, you should probably register in a "real" domain.
-- 
Bill Wisner
..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis,rutgers}!killer!wisner
(and, sometime real soon now) wisner@killer.dallas.tx.us