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Re: Functional SLDs (was Re: Registration of Common Names)

On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> > the .com is automatically added by Netscape and other browsers.
> 
> It also adds www at the beginning so you can type just microsoft and
> it will try to go to www.microsoft.com.  Does that mean we should just
> collapse the entire namespace to .COM and forget everything else?

In fact, it does not necessarily do this. For the majority of browser
users who access the net through a firewall this shortcut does not work.


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