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In lugnet.publish, Matthew Miller writes:
> Mike Timm <mtimm@usinternet.com> wrote:
> > Nice idea overall, but bad idea on the domain name.
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> "Gerf" doesn't sound even remotely connected to LEGO. Their policy states
> that you shouldn't use Lego as part of the _domain name_, which it isn't in
> this case. "lego" is the _host name_, which is an entirely different thing.
In this case, "lego" is indeed the host name, but it's _also_ part of the
domain name: It's part of the 3rd-level domain name. The popular media
has been propagating the misperception that "domain name" equals "second
level domain name," but of course that's not true -- and it's easy to forget
these days.
For example, the "foo" in foo.co.uk is the 3rd-level domain name for the
domain foo.co.uk, while in foo.com it is the 2nd-level domain name for the
domain foo.com. "foo" might be simply a host (a dead-end node) or it might
be a name server expanding to multiple hosts in the domain.
> Granted, their policy also talks about "an internet address", but that's an
> extremely vague term. But the last sentence of the relevant paragraph
> clarifies: it would be misleading to use "lego" in the domain name.
TLG shut down a site named legowww.homepages.com in 1995.
--Todd
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| (...) Whoops, I meant that it was propagating the misperception that "domain name" equals "second-level domain name, followed by a dot, followed by first-level domain name" -- i.e., plonk.com or blarg.net or snoot.org. "We put the dot in .com!" (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Lego at Gerf.Org
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| (...) It could be. But it could also be a host name. I appeal to the FOLDOC: <URL:(URL) "domain" is most commonly used to refer to a group of computers whose hostnames share a common suffix, the domain name. The last component of this is the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Lego at Gerf.Org
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| (...) Gerf, pronounced with a hard "G", is un-related. I will not contact them to ask their permission for this domain as I don't want to know their answer. Their rules about "internet addresses" are vague (is www.gerf.org/~lego not allowed? How (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| (...) "Gerf" doesn't sound even remotely connected to LEGO. Their policy states that you shouldn't use Lego as part of the _domain name_, which it isn't in this case. "lego" is the _host name_, which is an entirely different thing. Granted, their (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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