mivox - 10:06 pm on Mar 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

It was my understanding that .org was originally intended for non-proift or non-commercial organizations. Just like .edu was for accredited educational institutions, and .gov was for government organizations. .net was originally supposed to be for groups that had some structural or functional role in the internet, like a bandwidth provider or some such. (.net always seemed a little fuzzy to me.)

.com was to be the only TLD available for general commercial websites. However, it very quickly degraded to where .gov and .edu were the only two TLDs being regulated in accordance with their original purpose.

Trying to retroactively enforce the original TLD restrictions at this point seems stupid and hopeless. Why don't they now try and reposess all the .net domains that aren't owned and used by companies providing/operating/manufacturing internet services and/or infrastructure?

Too little, too late.