Ah, I remember the old InterNIC hostmaster forms. FTP it from a site, fill it in, hope you didn't screw up a space somewhere, wait. That's how I got my .org t

Ah, I remember the old InterNIC hostmaster forms. FTP it from a site, fill it in, hope you didn't screw up a space somewhere, wait. That's how I got my .org that's old enough it has been legally able to buy its own drinks for years. As for this: > Even back then, .Net and .Com were never enforced for a particular purpose. Maybe we had a different experience but I was actively turned down twice for .net domains because the listed organization wasn't a network operator. One time was for a local computer company that wanted a name ending in "NET" and the second was for a small co-operative ISP (and the rejection said to go to .org, funny enough). You could be right about .com; I wasn't ever turned down for registering in that zone but I only remember people caring back when having a .com wasn't "cool" because it meant you were "commercializing the InterNet."