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Domain_Names guides users to subcategories which contain all resources and services having to do with Domain Name Services. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed database used by computer systems to map between hostnames and IP addresses, and to provide electronic mail routing information. Each site (university department, campus,company, or department within a company, for example) maintains its own database of information and runs a server program that other systems across the Internet can query. The DNS provides the protocol which allows clients and servers to communicate with each other. This category and its sub-categories include the companies that provide the resources to make this system work, companies that provide the resources to end users for use or resell and sites that discuss issues in the system.

Subcategories:
  • Disputed Domain Names (268)
  • For Sale or Auction (225)
  • Name Search (53)
  • Official TLD Registries (178)
  • Opinions (3)
  • Registrars (239)
  • Resources (104)
  • Unregistered Domain Lists (4)


    • Related categories (@) :
  • Alternate Domain Names
  • DNS Protocol
  • Globalization
  • Software



    • Sites in this category

  • Domains Reregistered for Distribution of Unrelated Content - A Case Study of "Tina's Free Live Webcam" - Research documenting 4525 domains registered by 'Tina's Free Live Webcam.' Each domain was previously used by another registrant, and Tina seems to have specifically sought to re-register the domains as they became available. Includes a discussion of the scope of this problem, policy implications, and possible solutions.

  • ICANN - The non-profit corporation responsible for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, as well as domain name and root server system management functions.

  • Public Suffix List - An initiative of the Mozilla Foundation to record domain name suffices such as ".com" or ".co.uk" under which sub-domains for different entities are registrable. Includes FAQs, the list file, and instructions for registrars to submit changes.

  • The Register - Cracking down on cyberspace land grabs - Reports on an IP-block hijacking when "Los Angeles County had been hit by a growing type of hi-tech fraud, in which large, and usually dormant, segments of the Internet's address space are taken away from their registered users through an elaborate shell game of forged letters, ephemeral domain names and anonymous corporate fronts."



    • This category was updated on Feb 08, 2010

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