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[Jeremy Porter]

In message <33B0902A.3977 at village.ios.com>, Rey Blanco writes:
>marshall eubanks wrote:
>> 
>> This just came in from the Washington Post
>> 
>> ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/digest/tech1.htm )
>> 
>> NSF Approves Non-Profit Internet Registry
>>      Plan
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>>                                         Regards
>>                                         Marshall Eubanks
>>                                         tme at casa.usno.navy.mil
>Marshall:
>
>Does this mean that all the people who have been praying that
>internet works will lose the domain names they have?
>
>Right now if one taps into the computer a "dot com" address
>the "internet" is programmed to go out and search for the long
>goobledygook address:   http://www.somedomain.com
>if one simply types     somedomain      into the "go to" box.
>
>Does that programming dissappear?  Is there another operating system?

It has nothing to do with domain names, it has to do with IP addresses.






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