Eric Thomas wrote: > But that is not the case. US, GOV, EDU, NET and COM point > to the US because there are domains that initially covered only > the US. I doubt you will find many non-US organisations with a > .GOV or .EDU domain, That is correct... a number of Canadian universities are singing on with .edu as well as their normal addresses but nobody i know of uses .gov except the US. The three-letter domains ought to useful for everyone, and the only way to make that happen is to have country codes added AFTER the .com.net.org. etc., I think there is room for lobbying to set an international standard on this. I am told that some state organizations in california are adding .ca in their addresses. This will drive us Canadians crazy. Domain names need to be re-thought to prepare for the future, when there will be many more of them, and to reflect geography as well as function. Ford cars are Ford cars, but there is a difference between one with a Canadian and one with a Somali licence plate. They should not all be .ford Jan George Frajkor _!_ School of Journalism, Carleton Univ. --!-- 1125 Colonel By Drive | Ottawa, Ontario /^\ Canada K1S 5B6 /^\ /^\ [log in to unmask] / [log in to unmask] o: 613 520-7404 fax: 613 520-6690 h: 613 563-4534