From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: SciFi Weekly & Mimosa
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:28:49 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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From: Jim Toth <jtoth at megrez.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: SciFi Weekly & Mimosa
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:21:04 -0400

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:25:22PM -0400, Keith F. Lynch
(kfl at keithlynch.net) said:
 > If you ever have a few hours you can find nothing better to do with,
 > you can just start trying sites at random.  Does anyone have scifi.org
 > or scifi.net?  What is at sciencefiction.com?  What about fandom.com,
 > fandom.org, etc?  fiawol?  fijagh?  sfcons?  skiffy?

It has long amused me that there is a fiawol.com, .net, and .org, but
there is no fijagh.com, .net, or .org.  Quite appropriate.  I've never
actually looked at any of the fiawol sites though.

 > Com, org, and net aren't the only TLDs.  There's also edu, gov, mil,
 > int, and several new ones including info, aero, and museum.  And a two
 > letter suffix for every country, e.g. US and UK.  There is a scifi.uk,
 > for instance.

Some contries, (notably Tuvalu (.tv), the Federation of Micronesia
(.fm), and Western Samoa (.ws)  among others) sell their domain space
to anyone that wants one.  Thailand is not one of them, or I (or more
likely someone else) could have to.th.  And I doubt the Isle of Man
would let anyone have j.im.

And if you're *really* geeky, you could use an alternative root DNS
server and also get .parody, .null, and a few others.

 >
 > Have fun exploring.

--
Jim Toth
jtoth at megrez.org

I'm so glad we all learned English in school.

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