Talk:.com

message: Wasn't there a smart guy who earned a good sum by quickly registering websites such as mcdonalds.com etc, and later being able to demand millions of dollars by the company? Similarly I come to hink of the old whitehouse.com pornsite... 85.226.122.237 20:23, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As I recall, Mcdonalds.com was registered by a journalist to show that he could, for the purpose of mentioning it in an article, and he later turned it over to McDonald's for token compensation.  Whitehouse.com started as a political site, soon became a porn site, and continued that way until the domain was sold recently; it's now got a "temporary" page with ads on it with a "people search" site supposedly coming soon. *Dan T.* 20:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early entrepeneurs 

message: :Image:VeriSign.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:VeriSign.png

message: Stargate.com was registered in August of 1986, but is not on this list. --Henry W. Schmitt (talk) 05:27, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It was on the list, but someone removed it on the grounds that the website says the company was founded in 1989. However, that's not a valid reason for removing it, as domains can be transferred, and so can pre-date their current owners. So I've restored it, as the whois does say 05-Aug-1986, and this should be reliable. --Zundark (talk) 09:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old .com not on list 

message: I came to wikipedia to try to find our who 'owned' the .com domain. I wasn't able to work it out from the article. Is there a definitive answer to this? (This was prompted by the NYTimes article about a UK travel agent having most of his .com domains switched off by US government order and the subsequent discussion on Techdirt). Seems like a point that should be addressed? --Darrylxxx (talk) 10:37, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Domain Name System as a whole is currently governed by ICANN, and VeriSign operates .com under contract from ICANN. But I wouldn't say that either ICANN or VeriSign 'owns' .com (or any other TLD) - it's more a question of (temporary) control rather than ownership. --Zundark (talk) 11:49, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who 'owns' .com? 

message: Why is the following comment in the section about people using .com when they don't have to;
(including the Moroccan Consulate in Bordeaux)
This seems a really arbitrary example that isn't needed and is given too much precedence.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.108.174.66 (talk) 13:38, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Random comment 

message: Why is Wikipedia hiding or not stating that Network Solutions Inc (NSI) was owned and founded by a black man Emit McHenry? Why is Wikipedia not giving credit to him for creation of these domains? 96.225.87.5 (talk) 18:27, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you read the article on Network Solutions? Jmccormac (talk) 21:03, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emit McHenry 

message: Why does this article state the obvious falsehood that the Internet was invented in the US? 78.17.251.228 (talk) 07:40, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internet invented in the US??  

message: The DOD contracted the domain maintenance to GTE and GTE subcontracted it to SRI 2603:7080:4DF0:8C90:6152:A224:5954:28C2 (talk) 20:30, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  GTE