RE: tlug: strange ISP behavior

["John De Hoog" <dehoog@example.com>]

The change from or.jp to ne.jp is happening all over the Japanese Internet.
In the early days, ISPs were routinely assigned or.jp domains; but the
current plan is to have all network services companies adopt the ne.jp
suffix, since they are not organizations in the intended sense. There are
still some holdouts, notably Rimnet (xx.rim.or.jp).

--
John De Hoog, Tokyo
dehoog@example.com (not a real organization, nor very well organized)
http://dehoog.org

Jim Schweizer wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is a little off-topic, but most of you may find it interesting.
>
> I just noticed that two of the ISPs in Okayama are requiring that
> users upload
> their homepages again to the ISP's server because the server's
> name will change
> from *.or.jp to *.ne.jp
>
> Can someone explain the reasoning behind this?

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