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William Turner  
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 More options Nov 9 1994, 8:15 am
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From: wtur...@acorn.co.uk (William Turner)
Date: 9 Nov 1994 13:15:44 -0000
Local: Wed, Nov 9 1994 8:15 am
Subject: Re: Catchy _Domain_ Names
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Karl A. Krueger (k...@plato.simons-rock.edu) wrote:

>The reason is that to the British fi.com looks like com.fi.  (British
>hierarchy names are "backwards" to the rest of the world -- they're
>shaped like USENET newsgroup names, with the most generic part at the
>left ... "f...@uk.britsite.box" is the British spelling of
>"f...@box.britsite.uk".)  I believe New Zealand also uses this notation;
>does anyone else?

This is only true of academic 'JANET' sites in the UK. All other sites,
such as companies, service providers demon and pipex use addresses of
the form box.site.uk. Companies generally have .co.uk at the end,
like we do :-)

William

BTW: Most JANET sites can cope with their address either way around, so you
should be ok using the form f...@box.britsite.uk

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