Yeah, but legacy attitudes prevail. As Ross said - something to do with
open sores...
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Derek Balling wrote:
> Except that e-mail addresses belong to people at the COMpany,
> (they're paid, right?).
>
> I can understand the net/com distinction, but the only place .org
> should have in the equation is to prevent someone from cybersquatting
> it. There is nothing about Tucows/OpenSRS that "doesn't fit
> elsewhere" (as, paraphrased, the RFC puts it)... OpenSRS is a network
> services provider (.NET), as well as a commercial entrprise (.COM).
>
> D
>
>
> At 12:39 PM -0400 6/25/01, Charles Daminato wrote:
> >Well, initially we had three parts to OpenSRS:
> >
> >opensrs.org - the website, information, and staff working at the
> >"Org"anization
> >opensrs.net - the servers and backend for the "Net"work
> >opensrs.com - for anything involving the "Com"pany
> >
> >Ross felt it appropriate (and I agree) to use these TLDs for their
> >intended purpose, or at least as close as possible.
> >
> >So, email addresses end in org, servers end in net, and other stuff ends
> >in com :)
> >
> >Charles Daminato
> >TUCOWS Product Manager
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Philippe Landau wrote:
> >
> >> it's great to have such fast support now on the list, thanks OpenSRS staff.
> >>
> >> >> That's not funny...
> >> >> https://landrush.opensrs.net/info/index.cgi?action=prereg_info
> >> >> i receive "unrecognized certificate" warning both on IE 4.72.3110.4
> >> >> and NN 4.7 and on Opera 5.01. Is this a normal situation for all
> >> >> Tucows certs or site was not properly configured ?
> >> >That's odd, it works fine for me - this is a signed Cert from Entrust,
> >> >checking the details will show you that. *hrm...*
> >> my NN 4.08 mac says:
> >> "Netscape does not recognize the signer of this Certificate,
> >> you may decide to accept it anyway..."
> >>
> >> something else: is there a reason for the apparent preference to use
> >> OpenSRS.org over OpenSRS.net ? it seems unnecessarily misleading to me.
> >>
> >> kind regards philippe, http://InternetRoot.com
> >>
>
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