Dot mil
A friend observed at work that the Obama administration keeps rolling out new federal websites with simple domain names:
change.gov
recovery.gov
financialstability.gov
etc.
which join a bunch of other simple domains that follow the (common word or two).gov format, like
ready.gov
pandemicflu.gov
mypyramid.gov
etc.
My friend further observed that "hey why not, it's not like private interests could take their .gov domains."
Which brings me to the top level domain of .mil. Here are some sites; let's see if you can guess what they're for:
www.dfas.mil
www.usfk.mil
www.dodvclips.mil
www.dma.mil
Why not finance.mil, korea.mil, video.mil, and media.mil? That's because the Army will never use normal words when jargon exists. The best part is that they could easily do both at practically no cost - the marginal cost of each domain name pointing to the same server is probably tiny, since DoD owns the entire ".mil" top-level domain.
change.gov
recovery.gov
financialstability.gov
etc.
which join a bunch of other simple domains that follow the (common word or two).gov format, like
ready.gov
pandemicflu.gov
mypyramid.gov
etc.
My friend further observed that "hey why not, it's not like private interests could take their .gov domains."
Which brings me to the top level domain of .mil. Here are some sites; let's see if you can guess what they're for:
www.dfas.mil
www.usfk.mil
www.dodvclips.mil
www.dma.mil
Why not finance.mil, korea.mil, video.mil, and media.mil? That's because the Army will never use normal words when jargon exists. The best part is that they could easily do both at practically no cost - the marginal cost of each domain name pointing to the same server is probably tiny, since DoD owns the entire ".mil" top-level domain.
You're not paid to think, you're paid to execute!
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Anonymous |
December 28, 2011 8:48 AM