[ga-full] Older registrations

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 17:15 19.03.00 -0800, Simon Higgs wrote:
>"The IANA's File of iTLD Requests" (the original list of non-ccTLD 
>applications) was published by Jon Postel on behalf of IANA here on Dec 
>5th 1996:
>
>http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/00990.html

Thank you for the reference.
especially interesting was the heading saying

>In most cases if a reply was sent at all it said something like:
>
>         While there is much discussion of a process for establishing
>         new registries and new top level domains taking place, no
>         conclusions have been reached as yet.
>
>         Request sent to the IANA for a new top level domain will be
>         filed with the many other requests.  There is some considerable
>         possibility that this particular request will not be granted
>         (in simple words -- don't plan on it).

and the fact that Chris Ambler's ".WEB" request was #3 in the list
for that particular TLD.....

                       Harald

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
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