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Re: Lego at Gerf.Org
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:12:26 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Todd Lehman writes:
[...] The popular media
has been propagating the misperception that "domain name" equals "second
level domain name," [...]

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!"
"We're the dot-com people!"

(blyeah! :-)

--Todd



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  Re: Lego at Gerf.Org
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)

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