What does the 'com' in .com mean?

[rumguy]

[expatriot]

1. commercial

org=organizaton
mil=military
net=network
etc.

[expatriot]

4. or at least that's what I have been led to believe...

it could officially be "commerce" instead of commercial

[rumguy]

5. thanks

but why commercial?

the others make sense...

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Commercial

Original tld setup:

.edu - educational institutions
.com - businesses, for-profit organisations
.gov - government
.mil - military
.org - nonprofit organisations

[expatriot]

6. you took too long to type it! Now I am officially the smart one! HA!

on edit: mr. smarty pants had to fix a type in the subject heading.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. lol...

[rumguy]

7. I see - so it was originally supposed to signal a business

of course it's become much broader these days...

[expatriot]

9. yes... now people get .com because it is embedded in the culture

it's easier to tell somebody an address is .com rather than .org

[jeff30997]

11. All those .com and .org are making me horny.

:)

[lapfog_1]

12. That is also historical

Early in the commercialization phase of the Internet, everyone
wanted a DOT-COM domain simply because 90 percent of the domains
were .com, so people automatically put this in to whatever clever
name one came up with. Wouldn't matter it you were really
a commercial operation or not, you had to register blahblahblah.com
as well as .org and, usually, .net.

[Dookus]

3. Communist

but what would you expect from one of Al Gore's creations?

[rumguy]

8. I'm sure freepers have said as much

fuckin' freepers...

[NuttyFluffers]

13. tease a wacko freeper, call it .com(munism)!

if you can spin fast enough maybe the sucker will believe it and stay off the internet :D