http://www.domainersgazette.com/point-versus-dot/ ..domainer news, musings, and odd ramblings Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:34:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.domainersgazette.com/point-versus-dot/#comment-168 Confabulist Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:03:34 +0000 http://www.domainersgazette.com/point-versus-dot/#comment-168 It's "point" in radio because it's a decimal point, separating the ones place from the tenths place. That's not what it is in a website address, so I wouldn't expect to see it there. Similarly, it's "period" or "full stop" if one is reading a sentence aloud along with the punctuation. Computer programmers (and users of various kinds) have a long history of calling that character a "dot" when used in various computing contexts that long predate the world wide web, so its name in web addresses comes as no surprise. It’s “point” in radio because it’s a decimal point, separating the ones place from the tenths place. That’s not what it is in a website address, so I wouldn’t expect to see it there. Similarly, it’s “period” or “full stop” if one is reading a sentence aloud along with the punctuation. Computer programmers (and users of various kinds) have a long history of calling that character a “dot” when used in various computing contexts that long predate the world wide web, so its name in web addresses comes as no surprise.

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