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[ih] Dot Com etc

On 1/20/2010 12:37 PM, bboliek at catalpacreek.com wrote:
> Does anyone know why .com; .edu and .gov were chosen? I know it seems
> simple, but why .com instead of something like .biz?


Universities, organizations, and sometimes governments are biznesses.

"commercial" correctly identifies the caste somewhat uniquely.

But the answer to your question is "I don't know."

The bigger question is "why either one".  September would have 
eventually ended it they had been thinking better.

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to 
take everything you have."

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