-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FYI, The MITRE corporation is a non-profit research company, doing (primarily) research for the USAF. Phil (ex-MITRE employee #19950)
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Michael Dillon Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 9:53 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: WorldNIC
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 11:53:42PM -0400, Steve Sobol wrote:
.org was never meant as a domain for nonprofits; it was meant as a catchall to be used when your organization didn't fit into .com, .net, .edu or .gov.
Do you have a reference for that Steven? It doesn't match what I remember...
The MITRE Corporation registered mitre.org in 1985 and the Aerospace Corporation registered aero.org in 1987. This idea that .ORG was only for non-profit organizations is an example of historical revisionism propogated by people who were not there at the time the TLDs were created.
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