RE: [FreeDNS] Why..

["Graham Downs" <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

edu.za

ac.za

mil.za

 

There's also talk of a net.za. (No, not .za.net <g>) school.za is starting to become popular as well, but it essentially has the same purpose as edu.za. (As opposed to .ac.za, which specifically refers to colleges and universities, edu.za refers to primary and secondary schools [Private and Government]).

 

In the case of the US, any address without a country code is assumed to be in the US - in the old days, the US was the only country online, so they didn't need country codes. So .co.za is the equivalent of a .com in the states, .org.za is the equivalent of a .org in the states, etc.

 

Somebody let me know if any of my information is incorrect.

-----Original Message-----
From: freedns-admin@xxxxxx [mailto:freedns-admin@xxxxxx]On Behalf Of Colin Alston
Sent: Saturday, 08 June 2002 13:05
To: freedns@xxxxxx
Subject: Re: [FreeDNS] Why..

no.. actualy south africa has the .za domain.

co is short for company i think.

you also get gov.za org.za as far as i know

 

Regards, Colin

----- Original Message -----

From: Steenkamp's

To: freedns@xxxxxx

Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 11:19 AM

Subject: [FreeDNS] Why..

why does south africa in any case have domain names like co.za and so forth

and other countries like the USA and Canada only th .us and .ca ?

 

Leon