[WEB4LIB] Re: ...and I thought "gop.gov" was bad...

[Dick Williams]

>From what I understand there is no verification of .edu addresses and anyone
that wants to can register their address with this extension.  Perhaps I am
wrong since I have never done this and cannot say for sure but this is what
I have heard from many people over the years.

I agree that this definitely needs to change and would participate in any
kind of petition to make this happen.

Best to all,  Dick Williams

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Dan Lester
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:15 PM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: ...and I thought "gop.gov" was bad...



Tuesday, March 13, 2001, 11:17:10 AM, you wrote:


CPH> There's been a lot of debate about who should get a ".edu" domain. Four
year
CPH> universities only? Two-year institutions? How about K-12 schools. Must
they
CPH> be accredited schools, or can anyone calling themselves a "college" get
one?

The rules say it is four year post secondary only.  However, there are
many exceptions.  I've seen an urban school district (K-12), several
community colleges, and several proprietary colleges (some of which
wouldn't be considered "accredited" in the sense you probably mean,
though they're good at what they do).  I've not seen one as flagrant
as this one, but I'm not too surprised.

For example, the home page for College of Southern Idaho (two year
school) is either www.csi.cc.id.us or www.csi.edu  Both work.  The
first is the "correct" one.  But we can easily see why they prefer the
second one.  I would too.

I know that for ages you registered an .edu with networksolutions.com,
but they never listed .edu as an option on their basic page (just
listed .com, .net, .org, but now also list .tv (yuck)).  You had to
find it somewhere else on the site and then also submit some info that
showed you were a college.  I only know a bit about this, since though
I was the leader in changing idbsu.edu to boisestate.edu, I didn't do
the actual registration myself.

cheers

dan


CPH> Now there's an ".edu" site out there that doesn't seem to be an actual
CPH> educational
CPH> institution of any kind, but a site about a Japanese *video game* about
a
CPH> school
CPH> (unless I'm missing something here)...

CPH> http://www.kirameki.edu/

CPH> Curious...

CPH> --
CPH> Charles P. Hobbs
CPH> King Drew Health Science Library
CPH> http://www.cdrewu.edu/kdhsl





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