dell@apple.com (Thomas E. Dell) (12/03/90)
Here is the list of domains created & destroyed in November 1990.
This list is unofficial.
...Tom
dell@apple.com / Thomas E Dell
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Domains registered in November 1990.
An unofficial list.
There are 4 new toplevel domains:
CN People's Republic of China
EG Arab Republic of Egypt
HU Hungarian Academy of Sciences
ZA UNINET Project
There are 41 new COM domains:
AYUDA.COM Ayuda Company
BSJ.COM B.S.J. Technologies, Inc.
BUSL.COM Businessland, Inc.
CANON.COM Canon Information Systems
CANSTAR.COM CANSTAR
CLAIRTON.COM Clairton Computer Associates Incorporated
CONGRUENT.COM Congruent Corporation
CPM.COM Customer Potential Management
DANIELS.COM Daniels & Daniels, P.C.
DELMARVA.COM Delmarva Power and Light Company
DGI.COM Dynamic Graphics, Inc.
EATON.COM Eaton, Van de Streek, and Ward
EBSCO.COM Ebsco Industries, Inc.
EQUATOR.COM Equator Technologies, Inc.
ER.COM Essential Research
FUNHOUSE.COM Funhouse Consultants
GRAMMATECH.COM GrammaTech, Inc.
INFINITY.COM Infinity, Inc.
INTERF.COM Interferometrics, Inc.
INTERSTREAM.COM InterStream, Inc.
IPDESIGN.COM IP Design, Inc.
ISYS.COM Isys Controls Inc.
JPR.COM J.P. Radley
KONE.COM KONE Corporation
LORAL.COM Loral Corporation
MERCURY.COM Mercury Technologies, Inc.
NBN.COM North Bay Network
NETWISE.COM Netwise, Inc.
OBERON.COM Oberon Software Incorporated
ORACORP.COM Odyssey Research Associates
PAN.COM The PAN Network
POSTMODERN.COM Postmodern Consulting
QUESIG.COM Quesig Electronics
RAMBUS.COM Rambus Inc.
RN.COM Northern Star
ROCKWELL.COM Rockwell International
SIGNUM.COM Signum Software Pty Ltd
SIVS.COM State IV Software
SUNWORLD.COM Sun Tech Journal
TFD.COM Twenty-First Designs, Inc.
VENUE.COM Venue
3 COM domains were destroyed:
DECISION.COM Decision Studies Group, Inc.
ORAINC.COM Odyssey Research Associates
SSSSC.COM Small Scale Systems of Southern California
There are 7 new EDU domains:
CES.EDU Central State University
MEMST.EDU Memphis State University
SEMASSU.EDU Southeastern Massachusetts University
SLCC.EDU Salt Lake City Community College
USIU.EDU U.S. International University
UWSA.EDU University of Wisconsin- System Administration
VMI.EDU Virginia Military Institute
1 EDU domain was destroyed:
UTA.EDU University of Texas at Arlington
There are 3 new GOV domains:
ORAU.GOV Oak Ridge Associated Universities
USBM-CCN.GOV US Department of the Interior
VOA.GOV Voice of America
1 MIL domain was destroyed:
NPRDC.MIL Navy Personnel Research and Development Center
There are 2 new NET domains:
MICH.NET Merit Computer Network
SHOW.NET UNIFORUM Conference
There are 5 new ORG domains:
AIS.ORG Arbor Information Society
ETS.ORG Educational Testing Service
HJF.ORG Henry M. Jackson Foundation
MAMTC.ORG The Minnesota Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center
METRONET.ORG Metronet BBS Network
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dell@apple.com / Thomas E Dellbrunner@bullhead.UUCP (MH 6.6, Eric Brunner) (12/05/90)
Two points, first, the use of "ZA" for the UNINET Project, second the use
of "SHOW.NET" for Uniforum.
Am I especially confused today or arn't we using ISO country codes where ever
possible? I'm clueless as to what the UNINET project is, but I'm guessing that
it isn't the fidonet hack to route South African traffic. Here is a fragment
of ISO 3166, posted last June or July:
From: Codes for the representation of names of countries.
Third edition; ISO 3166: 1988 Aug 15; 53 p.
Name 2L 3L Num
[scads of lines deleted]
Somalia SO SOM 706
South Africa ZA ZAF 710
Spain ES ESP 724
[more scads of lines deleted]
Nets for shows -- here are the ones that are regular, well, periodic, that I
know about:
USENIX - usually set up by Ed Gould and Evi Nemuth et al, twice a year
InterOp - Peter de Vries, Stev Knolles, Brigham, Romkey, Natalie, me, and
others, once a year
Net World - I don't know who sets this network up, I know a forklift tore
it down (ouch), once a year
UNIFORUM - I didn't know that Ed Palmer had decided to set up a network at
the next UNIFORUM, usually at the one-a-year USENIX-and-UNIFORUM-
in-the-same-city events, the network is set up by Ed and Evi.
In addition to this list there have been others and there will be others,
some have been associated with trade shows, others with technical conferences,
e.g., SIGGRAPH '89 (I bid on this one), and some will be single-vendor show
case demos. It seems like everyone calls the event that they are setting up
or using the "show net". This makes sense to me and I'd prefer that it remain
this way.
It is my understanding that InterOp uses "Shownet", and that Net World uses
"ShowNet" in their written references. It is also my understanding that the
NIC has allocated "SHOW.COM" to generic show nets for DNS resolution, and
that several network addresses (actually net 45, nets 130.128 and 130.129,
and a class C network which I've forgotten) have been allocated as well.
The parties to the agreement are Sue Romano (NIC) and Peter de Vries (ACE),
and the terms are as I've described, not especially intended for the the
exclusive benefit of InterOp (nee ACE).
All this so that anyone could attach what I think of as a mayfly network
(adult mayflys live for a day or so, mate and become trout food) to the inter
net without having to go through the motions of getting a network number
allocated and domain registered, each one, each time, and probably forgetting
to free either the number or domain afterwards.
I'd like the new top-level "SHOW.NET" domain de-allocated, and mapped to the
top level "SHOW.COM" domain. I'd prefer that traffic sent to
postmaster@show.{com, net}
went to the same place, who ever is actually running a show network at
the time the DNS lookup is attempted. This way, which ever of us is actually
putting up a net and attaching to the internet doesn't have to do anything
other than just "get it right". It's pretty unlikely given the established
schedules of each of the groups I mention (due to hotel/site requirements,
we calander 5 years in advance) that there is going to be frequent overlaps
of usage of either the domain or the addresses. Also, we could have our users
just use the "luser@show.net", without having to explain how and why the top
level of the DNS is set up the way it is -- the sophisticates might use the
.COM domain, but they are not the majority. Generally speaking, I'd like the
addressing convention of
ibm-booth-owner@show.com
or
my-pal@show.net
to get my mail (and other people's too I suppose) to the right place, not some
portion dumped on the floor over at Uniforum's new offices.
I also think that it is "not on" that a for-profit entity which is an event
provider (rock concerts, trade shows), which is only incidently a production
network provider, to be registered any other way than as a "COM" domain.
I don't suppose that SHOW.EDU, SHOW.ORG, SHOW.GOV will arise, though there
are some mayfly examples of each that come to mind.
I'll call Ed Palmer and Ralph Barker over at Uniforum after lunch time
and find out why they asked for a top level domain for their once-a-year,
one-week show. Perhaps they didn't know they could use show.com and get a
class A net address at no extra charge. I'll follow up.thorinn@DIKU.DK (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) (12/06/90)
From: MH 6.6 (Eric Brunner) <brunner@bullhead.UUCP>
first, the use of "ZA" for the UNINET Project, ...
The compiler of this list (or his automatic information gatherer) is
very trusting of some source of information, probably the NIC:
Whois: domain za
UNINET Project (ZA-DOM)
Foundation for Research Development
P.O. Box 2600
Pretoria 0001
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
Domain Name: ZA
Administrative Contact:
Shaw, Vic (VS59) uninet@FRD.AC.ZA
+27 12 841 3542
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Jacot-Guillarmod, Francois (FJG4) ccfj@quagga.ru.ac.za
+27 461 22023 ext 284
Record last updated on 07-Nov-90.
Domain servers in listed order:
SAQQARA.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU 128.146.8.98
PLAINS.NODAK.EDU 134.129.111.64
Top-level domain for the Republic of South Africa
For information concerning this domain, please consult
the Administrative Contact listed above.
Whois:
This often happens with other domains on the list: Some part of an
organization needs Internet access, and registers a domain with a name
corresponding to the whole organization; but the information
registered for the domain shows only the suborganization.
Actually, even long-established country domains may have strange
descriptions:
Dansk UNIX-system Bruger Gruppe (DK-DOM)
UK Domain (UK-DOM)
University College London (AC-DOM)
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Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U of Copenhagen, Denmark [uunet!]mcsun!diku!thorinn
Institute of Datalogy -- we're scientists, not engineers. thorinn@diku.dknews@m2xenix.psg.com (Randy Bush) (12/11/90)
brunner@bullhead.UUCP (MH 6.6, Eric Brunner) writes: > Two points, first, the use of "ZA" for the UNINET Project, second the use > of "SHOW.NET" for Uniforum. > ... > Am I especially confused today or arn't we using ISO country codes where ever > possible? I'm clueless as to what the UNINET project is, but I'm guessing that > it isn't the fidonet hack to route South African traffic. Here is a fragment > of ISO 3166, posted last June or July: > ... > South Africa ZA ZAF 710 UNINET is an administrative group within the South African Foundation for Research Development, akin to the US NSF. They fund (cooperatively) the university net of South Africa, aka UNINET. They are the administrators for the South African domain, under which .AC.ZA is currently active, and they're trying to sort out the rest. Feel better now? :-) -- ..!{uunet,qiclab,intelhf,bucket}!m2xenix!news
ccml@quagga.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) (12/11/90)
In <9012042102.AA13531@bullhead.awdpa.ibm.com> brunner@bullhead.UUCP (MH 6.6, Eric Brunner) writes: >Two points, first, the use of "ZA" for the UNINET Project, >Am I especially confused today or arn't we using ISO country codes where ever >possible? I'm clueless as to what the UNINET project is, but I'm guessing that >it isn't the fidonet hack to route South African traffic. Let me try to clear some of the confusion. The academic network in South Africa is known by the (unfortunate) name of Uninet. It is sometimes distinguished from the 100's of other Uninets of the world by calling it Uninet-za. There are some 20-odd universities and research institutes in South Africa connected by various protocols to form Uninet-za. Seed-money for the 64 Kbd trunks was provided by the taxpayers via the Foundation for Research Development (the body that funds most of the university research here). The academic sites will fall under an .AC.ZA domain. The Uninet Office is the administrative entity for the .ZA domain (and the .AC.ZA domain). Uninet-za has adopted a policy of moving onto the Internet standards as far as possible. There is a small internet of 4 sites, about 600 miles apart, using tcp/ip. At the University of Cape Town (UCT) there is a tcp/ip to Decnet gateway. At Rhodes University there are two gateways to the big world, one being via a Fidonet Kludge, the other a uucp link. Rhodes also runs a home-grown link into an IBM VMNOTEs network, that allows sites like the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) to access world-wide email. We are looking to replace the uucp link with a tcp/ip dedicated connection. Any help or comments about getting a dedicated 9600 baud analog link at the USA end will be much appreciated - we have had horrendous quotes ($8000 /mth) and don't really know how to get the price closer to an affordable $3500 /mth. There are several links to parts of Southern Africa (eg Botswana and Namibia, soon Zimbabwe). These eminate from Rhodes as well. There is also an active network of commercial hackers (I mean no disrespect) called Sanet. This is potentially a .CO.ZA domain. I will gladly handle any further questions or amplify on any of the points above. Mike Lawrie Director Computing Services, Rhodes University, South Africa <ccml.rures@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org> <ccml@rures.ru.ac.za> --- Rhodes University condemns racism and racial segregation and strives to maintain a strong tradition of non-discrimination with regard to race and gender in the constitution of its student body, in the selection and promotion of its staff and in its administration.