Thank you.

Jerrie

>From: Justin Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: ICANN's Evaluation Report on New TLD Applications Posted
>Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:04:27 -0500
>
>TLD == top level domain
>A TLD is the last .whatever that you type in, for example
>www.yahoo.COM or www.va.GOV.  The .com or .gov is the top
>level domain.  There are a lot of these as beyond .com, .org, .net,
>.gov, .edu, and .mil, each country is assigned one of it's own (in
>the U.S. it's .us, Belize is .bz, Japan .jp, etc etc) to do with as
>they wish.  Usually the 3 letter tlds are administered by the U.S.
>
>ICANN == Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
>They act as the administrators of the Internet, deciding what top
>level domains will be used, as well as what protocal will be used to
>determine how domains are located (IPs are numbers that give
>locations for computers on the web and look like this
>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx).  They are supposedly an International group that
>is looking into new TLD's as has been requested.
>--justin
>"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
>      - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
>
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