I was happily watching the hockey playoffs just now (well, as happily as possible without Hockey Night in Canada), and noticed a commercial for U.S. Navy Recruiting. Why why why why why are they in .COM?! I think we should be told. Sean.
### On Sun, 21 Apr 1996 18:36:17 -0700 (PDT), Sean Doran ### <smd@smdbox.icp.net> wrote to nanog@Merit.Edu concerning "NAVYJOBS.COM": SD> and noticed a commercial for U.S. Navy Recruiting. SD> SD> Why why why why why are they in .COM?! SD> SD> I think we should be told. Well, without further checking than this... #101:<khuon@Espresso>(pts/38)[~]% whois navyjobs.com US Navy Recruiting Command (NAVYJOBS-DOM) 801 N Randolph Arlington, VA 22203-1991 Domain Name: NAVYJOBS.COM Administrative Contact: Howard, Joe (JH547) bbdo@ID1.COM 202-459-6480 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Riordan, John (JR181) john@INTERPORT.NET 212 989-1128 Record last updated on 16-May-95. Record created on 19-Apr-95. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.INTERPORT.NET 199.184.165.1 NS2.INTERPORT.NET 199.184.165.2 Could it be possible that NAVYJOBS.COM is actually just some business entity and really isn't directly affiliated with the USN at all? Maybe they're a contracted-out recruiting service. -- /*===================[ Jake Khuon <khuon@Merit.Net> ]======================+ | Systems Research Programmer, IE Group /| /|[~|)|~|~ N E T W O R K | | VOX: (313) 763-4907 FAX: (313) 747-3185 / |/ |[_|\| | Incorporated | +==[ Suite C2122, Bldg. 1 4251 Plymouth Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2785 ]==*/
I was happily watching the hockey playoffs just now (well, as happily as possible without Hockey Night in Canada), and noticed a commercial for U.S. Navy Recruiting.
Why why why why why are they in .COM?!
I think we should be told.
Sean.
Maybe they were hassled about a .GOV and needed to go online ASAP. Avi
I was happily watching the hockey playoffs just now (well, as happily as possible without Hockey Night in Canada), and noticed a commercial for U.S. Navy Recruiting.
Why why why why why are they in .COM?!
I think we should be told.
Sean.
Maybe they were hassled about a .GOV and needed to go online ASAP.
Avi
By the way, that wasn't an editorial comment, just a hypothesis... Better that people be hassled about .GOVs, .NETs, and .EDUs than that they have those domains yanked at some point in the future... Avi
Avi Freedman spoke from the ethers and said:
I was happily watching the hockey playoffs just now (well, as happily as possible without Hockey Night in Canada), and noticed a commercial for U.S. Navy Recruiting.
Why why why why why are they in .COM?!
I think we should be told.
Sean.
Maybe they were hassled about a .GOV and needed to go online ASAP.
Avi
By the way, that wasn't an editorial comment, just a hypothesis... Better that people be hassled about .GOVs, .NETs, and .EDUs than that they have those domains yanked at some point in the future...
Avi
I reckon it may be because the MilNet Domain Maintainers for the services are loathe to give out a .mil address to a commercial ISP. We ran into that with a client from the Army. They wanted a virtual server, but the Army wouldn't assign a .mil address for them. -Carl -- ===================================================================== Carl Forsythe |Webmaster Monterey Bay Internet | carlf@mbay.net | http://www.mbay.net | Somewhere there is someone, who can see the things that I see... =====================================================================
Sean Doran put this into my mailbox:
I was happily watching the hockey playoffs just now (well, as happily as possible without Hockey Night in Canada), and noticed a commercial for U.S. Navy Recruiting.
Why why why why why are they in .COM?!
I wondered this too, at first, then remembered that Netscape allows the user to enter simply 'navyjobs' in the URL field, and Netscape will automatically prepend "http://www." and append ".com" to the entry. Ah, commercialization... -Sven Nielsen Dalvenjah FoxFire, the Teddy Dragon (also known as Sven Nielsen to some :) dalvenjah@dal.net --- dalvenjah on IRC Remember: if you're not on DALnet, you're on the wrong IRC server!! (/serv irc.dal.net 7000 or telnet telnet.dal.net to try it out) -- ____ _ _ _ "I had the dagger in my hand, and he has | _ \ __ _| |_ _____ _ _ (_)__ _| |_the indecency to start dying on his own!" | |_) / _` | \ V / -_) ' \ | / _` | ' \ --Ambassador G'kar, Babylon 5 |____/\__,_|_|\_/\___|_||_|/ \__,_|_||_| FoxFire -- dalvenjah@dal.net -- (SN90) |__/
I was happily watching the hockey playoffs just now (well, as happily as possible without Hockey Night in Canada), and noticed a commercial for U.S. Navy Recruiting.
Why why why why why are they in .COM?!
I think we should be told.
Sean.
The Navy Recruiting web site, and all the other Navy Recruiting stuff - print, TV, radio, etc - is produced by an advertising agency. Apparently a lot of the Navy recruiting effort is out sourced. While I did not contribute to the decision making with regard to the choice of domain (it was decided before the agency awarded the hosting contract to us), I asked the people here who work with the agency on the contract if they knew why the agency decided on a .com domain instead of a .mil or .gov. So what follows is hearsay... Apparently there was a lot of consideration given to the domain name for the web site and after some debate over using the existing navy.mil or a new .com it was decided to go with a new .com domain. Aside from the complications arising from getting the navy's cooperation with regard to having a commercial organization running a web site in the navy.mil domain from a technical standpoint, from the ad agencies point of view there was a desire to keep the recruiting web site operations as separate from any military operations as possible for a bunch of logistical and bureaucratic reasons. John Riordan Interport Communications Corp.
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Sean Doran