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

[Rachel Ban]

There are a few educational associations with .edu addresses that they
obtained very early on (pre-1994/5).  An educational association I
previously worked for tried to register for a .edu address, this was
perhaps three years ago (1998?).  Try as we might, we could not get the
.edu address.  We were told that we were not an educational institution
and could not get this as a domain name.

It seems that the verification procedures go from the extremes of strict
verification to no verification. I suspect that the checking procedures
have been significantly weakened since Network Solutions no longer has a
monopoly on domain name registrations.

rachel

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Dick Williams wrote:

> >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
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Dan Lester, Data Wrangler  dan at RiverOfData.com
> 3577 East Pecan, Boise, Idaho  83716-7115 USA
> www.riverofdata.com  www.postcard.org  www.gailndan.com
> 
> 
> 
> 

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