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Can someone explain this to me?
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chrischen
    Member since: Feb 14, 2008 Rank: Noble (57 Posts) |
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You go to a website domain selling place. Like godaddy.com or register.com. Avoid networksolutions.com!
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dajackel
Member since: Nov 4, 2006 Rank: Merchant (45 Posts) |
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An organization known as ICANN decides (http://www.icann.org/). They are the ones who handle pretty much everything domain related, including the creation of new domain extensions.
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Kevin_Cox
Member since: Oct 14, 2006 Rank: Viking King (557 Posts) |
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Well, the United States has control over icann. Since, we invented the internet. http://www.icann.org/
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micco
Member since: Mar 28, 2007 Rank: Warrior (233 Posts) |
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Just to get terminology correct, these are called top-level domains (TLDs). The names we register like cambrianhouse to make cambrianhouse.com are second-level domains. Once you control the DNS routing for a domain, you can create higher level domain names like blogs.cambrianhouse.com at will.
Anyone can create new TLDs. They just set up a DNS root server to resolve the domains in that TLD. Several different registrars have popped up over the years trying to sell domains in new TLDs. The problem is that no one can see them unless their DNS lookup is eventually going to reach these root servers and most people are only set up to check ICANN's root servers. If you're curious about how this works, the DNS system is really a pretty great example of good architecture and you can find good overviews online.
The US government originally controlled all of the top-level root servers via contract with the registrar that ran them. They turned control over to ICANN which is run by a multi-national board. The US government still asserts some level of control and de facto veto power over ICANN, but day-to-day operations and major decisions like adding new TLDs are made by the ICANN board which is not controlled (directly or overtly) by the US government.
Anyone can create new TLDs. They just set up a DNS root server to resolve the domains in that TLD. Several different registrars have popped up over the years trying to sell domains in new TLDs. The problem is that no one can see them unless their DNS lookup is eventually going to reach these root servers and most people are only set up to check ICANN's root servers. If you're curious about how this works, the DNS system is really a pretty great example of good architecture and you can find good overviews online.
The US government originally controlled all of the top-level root servers via contract with the registrar that ran them. They turned control over to ICANN which is run by a multi-national board. The US government still asserts some level of control and de facto veto power over ICANN, but day-to-day operations and major decisions like adding new TLDs are made by the ICANN board which is not controlled (directly or overtly) by the US government.
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Kevin_Cox
Member since: Oct 14, 2006 Rank: Viking King (557 Posts) |
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Well, what you said is true. ICANN is under the ultimate control of the US. ICANN is international as far as most decision making, except the US has a preeminent role over the decisions being made.
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DTINGG
Member since: Feb 25, 2008 Rank: Peasant (8 Posts) |
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So how do they make their decisions on what TLDs are to be accepted. I see that they are working on a .pro TLD. It seems a bit labor intensive, hence expensive to get these TLDs accepted. It also seems that it would be great for larger social networks to be able to sell domains with their extension (dannspage.fbk (facebook)) Are there avenues for a social community to get these extensions? It seems that ICANN wants to limit TLDs in order to provide stability on the web.
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micco
Member since: Mar 28, 2007 Rank: Warrior (233 Posts) |
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I think the fact that the longest TLD is the one intended for mobile users (.mobi) is evidence that there is not much actual thought being put into the process. It's mostly power wrangling between registrars (who want to sell more) and trademark owners (who don't want to have to monitor more).
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GroundLoad
Member since: Oct 17, 2007 Rank: Viking King (545 Posts) |
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If I remember right ... someone once had an idea in the competition that was simply to change an extension to something strange. It was like .mud or something.
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Kevin_Cox
Member since: Oct 14, 2006 Rank: Viking King (557 Posts) |
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Well there is one other major company that had the idea of using a wild card. They made there own setup. Where simply typing the name example "websitename" without the need for the .com or anything else since it was listed as a wild card.
The fee they charged was something like $2000 per name. But, they still have the problem of not being in the list for browsers to check there root servers.
The fee they charged was something like $2000 per name. But, they still have the problem of not being in the list for browsers to check there root servers.
Posted: March 20, 2008, 6:49 pm