Re: Map Generator....

From: silver+news@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin) wrote in
<slrn88rt7k.81b.tim@leaphome.pelican.org>:

>60% from .us, .mil and .gov?  Remember, .com, .net and .org are
>*international* not US domains.
>
>Sorry, just a pet bugbear of mine when it's assumed I'm from / in /
>affiliated with the US just because I have a .org...

Well, true, and increasingly more so.  (Which is, if you ask me, the Wrong
Thing.  *We* should go to co.us et al. and not have everyone else coming to
.com; that's what .int is for if you *really* have to have a global domain.
But domain nameage is just plain screwed up.  I just have to laugh at the
cybersquatter who's sitting on phoenyx.com... I *picked* .net because I
*am* a network services provider, not commercial, and I have no especial
interest in the .com domain, and certainly no vast sums of money to pay for
it if I had changed my mind.  (I'd have been an .org, but I got my domain
at a time when that *meant* something, and it costs too much to become a
genuine non-profit, ironically enough.)  I'd be better off getting
pheonyx.net as a second domain, was I going that route, and it's quite
available (at least, it was until I said something about it), but really,
people find me through search engines, not because they say "Hey, I'm
looking for play-by-email roleplaying.  I bet it's under a domain named for
a mythical bird with a misspelling, caused back in the 80's by 1200-baud
line noise, that stuck."  So I'm really not all that concerned about
whether people can spell it, or whether they remember me being .com or
.net.  But I digress.  A lot.)

At any rate, it's still fairly safe to say that of the Big 7 TLD's (Big 6,
since I don't think I've got any hits from .int this month) plus .us, less
than 3% are .edu, so unless there's a large quantity of non-USAn colleges
in .org or something, it's still a reasonably accurate figure for guessing
the percentage of college students.

--
Karen Cravens (silver@phoenyx.net)
Phoenyx Play-by-Email Roleplaying - http://www.phoenyx.net
Phoenyx PBeM Banner Exchange - http://www.phoenyx.net/bp

References

Re: Map Generator....
Ilya <ilya@spam.free.gamecommandos.com>
Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Map Generator....
"Terry Austin" <taustin@hyperbooks.com>
Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Map Generator....
tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin)
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Map Generator....
"Terry Austin" <taustin@hyperbooks.com>
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Map Generator....
gherbert@crl3.crl.com (George Herbert)
Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Map Generator....
"Terry Austin" <taustin@hyperbooks.com>
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Map Generator....
silver+news@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Map Generator....
tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin)
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000