[Courses] [Domains] Choosing a domain name

[Mary]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> On 12/06/04 16:08 +1000, Mary wrote:
> <snip>
> > My personal inclination is to explain this as due to an
> > (understandable) lack of foresight by the original designers of this
> > system. They don't seem to have considered that individuals would
> > one day want a domain name. Nor was there space for *products* (like
> > movies or soft drinks) to have their own domain name.
> Uh? It has always been trivially easy to add a new domain to the DNS
> roots.

"This system" wasn't intended to refer to "the DNS", it meant "the
system of domain names we current have", which is a broader thing than
the technical system that allows it to take place. (This course is only
interested in the technical system, and anything else for that matter,
in so far as you need to know about it to have a domain name.)

The word "original" was probably a poor choice.

Mary