"You see, the use of these suffixes way back when didn’t mean much. Anyone could register just about any two, three, or four letter abbreviation (those made available by the overseers of these things, that is) to the end of their domain name with little care. Everyone sought their desired names with the ever-more-precious ‘.com’ attached at the end, but if that one was taken, they still had those other options to choose from. That’s what all the various non-dot-com suffixes were, right? Extra options. Apart from ‘.gov’, of course. That was (and still is) off-limits to the general public..."
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