Re: URL Expansion proposal

At 10:57 96/01/14, Israel del Rio wrote:
>My proposal is to agree on expanding the first * (asterisk) in
>a URL to "http://www."; the second asterisk to ".com/"
>and any subsequent * to a slash. That way,
>a user typing *companyname* in a URL field would actually be
>sending the entire URL.

This might be fine for the *.com domain but what about the *.com.au and the
other 100+ countries on the web besides the USA?? Also I don't think "com"
is used by all countries to indicate their commercial sector.

Tony

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Received on Sunday, 14 January 1996 01:04:02 UTC