Roger De Salis wrote:
Sue Leader wrote:
Greetings
I have an inquiry to answer and am missing one essential piece of inforamtion. Can anyone tell me what the rationale was for having a second level domain (2LD) structure rather than a flat structure in .nz?
So that the address structure can be divided into things that humans can remember.
Except to note that it's not necessary and in fact simply causes confusion. For example, if you wanted to contact Paradise (the ISP) would you choose paradise.co.nz or paradise.net.nz? Now make the choice as a naive user. Is aix.net.nz the same entity as aix.co.nz? The list is endless. The rationale appears to me to be that we simply copied the names that had been use in the UK JANET network - .co, .govt and .ac and once the principle had been established we continued down the track with .net, .mil (copied from the US) and .gen, .school and .iwi (which we made up ourselves). With the benefit of hindsight I'd advocate that it's all a crock and a single domain, .nz is all we need. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog