re extensions in article r omsinnnbk ctron news ctron com smith ctron com writes in article gfpftjw iv q vwyv andrew cmu edu daniel u holbrook dh q andrew cmu edu writes these are the extensions i know of ch switzerland se sweden fi finland uk uk com us edu us are both com and edu us fr france dk denmark no norway com and edu are both united states one refers to commercial institutions the other to mental i mean educational institutions gov is also pretty much us it refers to government institutions internet was built on the aarp backbone a us defense contractor network that used the extension i think you mean arpa aarp is the american association of retired persons and i seriously doubt that they d want young whippersnappers building anything on their backbones what with de calcification and all to identify the type of organisation internet extended the convention for other countries but the us retained the old conventions the general convention is that if it doesn t have a country tag on it it s a us site that includes com commercial edu educational mil us military sites gov us gov t non military sites eg nasa sites org anyone who is none of the above there are sites with such tags that are non us sites but they will have the country extension eg xxxx edu au is an extension i saw today us sites can also use the us extension but as mr smith pointed out the internet was built on the arpanet backbone and they default to us sites if there s no country code i would suggest that anyone who didn t know this or wants to know more about it on a non system administrative level check out the book the whole internet user s guide and catalog by ed krol or is it catalog and user s guide i can never remember and my copy is my desk at home it s a very good not necessarily technical guide to the internet and the various utilities that lurk on it including usenet i don t think it s part of the nutshell series but it is published by o reilly and associates this should go to one of the news newsgroups but damned if i can figure out which one james james p callison microcomputer coordinator u of oklahoma law center callison uokmax ecn uoknor edu callison aardvark ucs uoknor edu disclaimer i m not an engineer but i play one at work the forecast calls for thunder t bird sc it s a hell of a thing killing a man you take away all he has and all he s ever gonna have will munny unforgiven
