mil (derived from military) is the sponsored top-level domain A sponsored top-level domain is one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet (sTLD) in the Domain Name System The Domain Name System is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants. Most importantly, it translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical (binary) identifiers of the Internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic for the United States Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the military. The organization and functions of the DOD are set forth in Title 10 of the United States Code and its subsidiary or affiliated organizations. It was one of the first top-level domains, created in January 1985.[1]
The United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the is the only country that has a top-level domain for its military. Other countries often use second-level domains for this purpose, e.g., mod.uk .uk is the Internet country code top-level domain for the United Kingdom. As of July 2008, it is the fifth most popular top-level domain worldwide (after .com, .cn, .de and .net), with over 7 million registrations for the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border, sharing it with's Ministry of Defence The Ministry of Defence is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.
Although the United States military has its own top-level domain, it still uses com com is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) within the Domain Name System of the Internet. It was one of the original top-level domains (TLDs), the others being edu, gov, mil, net, org, and arpa established in January 1985. It has grown to be the largest TLD in use domains for some of its recruitment sites, such as goarmy.com, as well as for the Defense Commissary Agency The Defense Commissary Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Defense that manages 284 grocery stores on U.S. military installations worldwide. The current (2009) director of Defense Comissary Agency is Philip E. Sakowitz Jr.'s public website and most non-appropriated fund instrumentalities such as military MWR Morale, Welfare and Recreation, abbreviated MWR, is a network of support and leisure services designed for use by soldiers (active, Reserve, and Guard), their families, civilian employees, military retirees and other eligible participants organizations and military exchanges. Also, the military uses edu edu is the sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for educational institutions, primarily those in the United States. Although not officially mandated for much of the domain's existence, in practice it has been used primarily for U.S.-based four-year universities. Starting in 2001, it was officially restricted domains for its service academies: the United States Military Academy The United States Military Academy at West Point is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, New York. Established in 1802, USMA is the oldest of the United States's five service academies. The military garrison at West Point was occupied in 1778 and played a key role in the Revolutionary War. The academy sits on, United States Coast Guard Academy Founded in 1876, the United States Coast Guard Academy is the military academy of the United States Coast Guard. Located in New London, Connecticut, it is the smallest of the five federal service academies. The academy provides education to future Coast Guard officers. Cadets graduate with one of eight majors and are obligated to five years of, United States Naval Academy The United States Naval Academy is an undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland, United States, that educates and commissions officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The Academy often is referred to simply as "Annapolis". It is also called "The Academy", "The Boat School", or "Canoe U", and the United States Air Force Academy The United States Air Force Academy , is an accredited college for the undergraduate education of commissioned officers for the United States Air Force. Its campus is located immediately north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The Academy's stated mission is "to educate, train, and inspire men and women to become can all be reached using either an edu or a mil domain. The official athletic program sites of the three academies that are members of NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was under the leadership of president Division I Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States (Army, Navy, Air Force) use com domains. The Department of Defense itself uses gov gov is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is restricted for use by government entities in the United States. The gov domain is administered by the General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the United States federal government. The URL for registration services is http://www for its home page, with at least three second-level domains within mil ("defense", "dod", and "pentagon") redirecting to its home page of defense.gov.
The Department of Defense is also using some "vanity domains" within mil in recent times, such as ourmilitary.mil and norad.mil.
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Seattle gets $1.4 . mil. for hybrid trucks and electric charging stations In the News.
Q. Are you Fing kiding me? 20 mil? WTF is is the WWE thinking? Paying some idiot nobody cares about that much to act. On a side note, boxing has gotten to be as predictable as the WWE, so maybe it does make sence. What has the world come to?
Asked by Brew City - Thu Feb 28 04:17:23 2008 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments
A. stupid? No, overpriced? Yes. Because they had mayweather on Raw/the PPV, it got coverage on ESPN2's programing. That is good publicity! And that is what the WWE wanted out of the deal.
Answered by You wanna know??? - Thu Feb 28 04:21:12 2008
