Domain name - Revision history

Dan Tobias: https, wikidata

2020-02-11T23:55:41Z

https, wikidata

Jsummers: Changed category

2017-03-03T18:52:11Z

Changed category

Jsummers at 20:24, 7 October 2016

2016-10-07T20:24:08Z

Jsummers at 20:22, 7 October 2016

2016-10-07T20:22:47Z

VolodyA! V Anarhist: Top level domain

2015-04-21T12:33:08Z

Top level domain

Dan Tobias at 01:38, 19 February 2015

2015-02-19T01:38:27Z

Dan Tobias at 01:38, 19 February 2015

2015-02-19T01:38:03Z

Dan Tobias: /* Official documents */

2014-02-23T14:00:58Z

‎Official documents

Dan Tobias at 13:58, 23 February 2014

2014-02-23T13:58:11Z

Dan Tobias: /* Other links */

2014-02-22T20:32:23Z

‎Other links

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 |subcat=Internet
 |released=1985
 }}
 A '''domain name''' is a way that hosts, servers, websites, and other things on the Internet are generally identified. They translate to [[IP address]]es, the base addressing system of the Internet, via a protocol called [[DNS]], but are designed to be more human-meaningful and stable names than the all-numeric IP addresses.
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 == Official sites ==
-* [http://www.icann.org/ ICANN]
+* [https://www.icann.org/ ICANN]
-* [http://www.iana.org/ IANA]
+* [https://www.iana.org/ IANA]
 == Other links ==
-* [http://domains.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Name Site]
+* [https://domains.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Name Site]
 * [http://www.circleid.com/ CircleID: lots of domain news]
 * [http://cruftbox.com/blog/archives/001666.html On selling a domain name (a geek story)]
-* [http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/kits/video-mockapetris-15aug13-en.htm An Interview with Paul Mockapetris, Creator of the DNS]
+* [https://www.icann.org/en/news/press/kits/video-mockapetris-15aug13-en.htm An Interview with Paul Mockapetris, Creator of the DNS]
-* [http://publicsuffix.org/ Public Suffix List] (list of TLDs, SLDs, etc., accepting registrations beneath them)
+* [https://publicsuffix.org/ Public Suffix List] (list of TLDs, SLDs, etc., accepting registrations beneath them)
 * [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Public_Suffix_List Mozilla Wiki entry on Public Suffix List]

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 {{FormatInfo
-|subcat=Web
+|subcat=Internet
 |released=1985
 }}
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 [[Category:Naming and numbering systems]]
 [[Category:Elements of File Formats]]

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 ==See also==
 * [[Punycode]]
-* [[Top level domain]]
+* [[Top-level domain]]
 == Official sites ==

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 |released=1985
 }}
 A '''domain name''' is a way that hosts, servers, websites, and other things on the Internet are generally identified. They translate to [[IP address]]es, the base addressing system of the Internet, via a protocol called [[DNS]], but are designed to be more human-meaningful and stable names than the all-numeric IP addresses.
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 ==See also==
 * [[Top level domain]]
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 [[Category:Naming and numbering systems]]

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 * RFC 6761 (updated descriptions of reserved dummy domains)
 * [http://archive.icann.org/en/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm UDRP] (policy for domain disputes)
 == Official sites ==

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 Originally, generic domain names were grouped by category of entity (commercial, organization, government, etc.) into a small group of three-letter top level domains, while two-letter top-level domains were reserved for country codes. One anomalous four-letter domain, '''.arpa''', was originally used as a temporary place for ARPAnet hosts not yet assigned a permanent domain, but survived as the location of '''in-addr.arpa''', an address used for reverse domain lookups from IP addresses (and the TLD .arpa was later "retronymmed" to mean "Address and Routing Parameter Area" in RFC 3172).
-However, after the year 2000, a number of new top-level domains were added, some of which had more letters in them (e.g., '''.museum'''), and as of 2013 a huge expansion is in progress which is expected to see new domain endings by the hundreds, producing such odd addresses as [http://poop.bike/ poop.bike]. Maybe some day ''Saturday Night Live'''s <code>clownpenis.fart</code> address, jokingly mentioned in a fake commercial, will really be live.
+However, after the year 2000, a number of new top-level domains were added, some of which had more letters in them (e.g., '''.museum'''), and as of 2013 a huge expansion is in progress which is expected to see new domain endings by the hundreds, producing such odd addresses as [http://poop.bike/ poop.bike]. Maybe some day ''Saturday Night Live''&apos;s <code>clownpenis.fart</code> address, jokingly mentioned in a fake commercial, will really be live.
 Nevertheless, simple-minded people tend to expect that every address ends in '''.com''', even though this technically was only intended to apply to commercial entities.

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 * RFC 2606 (dummy domains reserved for test/example use)
 * RFC 3071 (reflections on domain name system)
 * RFC 6761 (updated descriptions of reserved dummy domains)
 * [http://archive.icann.org/en/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm UDRP] (policy for domain disputes)

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 Domain names replaced the earlier ARPAnet hostname system, where each network host had a separate centrally-assigned address. Instead, DNS uses a distributed system where domain names can be registered under one of a number of top level domains which can operate independent registries, and in turn each domain can assign an unlimited number of subdomains within it. Names have the dot (.) as a separator between levels and are read from the rightmost part leftward, so that '''host.subdomain.example.net''' has '''net''' as its top-level domain, '''example''' as its second-level domain (registered under .net), '''subdomain''' as a third-level subdomain (assigned by whoever controls '''example.net''' with no further registry/registrar action necessary), and '''host''' as the hostname beneath that subdomain.
-Originally, generic domain names were grouped by category of entity (commercial, organization, government, etc.) into a small group of three-letter top level domains, while two-letter top-level domains were reserved for country codes. One anomalous four-letter domain, '''.arpa''', was originally used as a temporary place for ARPAnet hosts not yet assigned a permanent domain, but survived as the location of '''in-addr.arpa''', an address used for reverse domain lookups from IP addresses.
+Originally, generic domain names were grouped by category of entity (commercial, organization, government, etc.) into a small group of three-letter top level domains, while two-letter top-level domains were reserved for country codes. One anomalous four-letter domain, '''.arpa''', was originally used as a temporary place for ARPAnet hosts not yet assigned a permanent domain, but survived as the location of '''in-addr.arpa''', an address used for reverse domain lookups from IP addresses (and the TLD .arpa was later "retronymmed" to mean "Address and Routing Parameter Area" in RFC 3172).
 However, after the year 2000, a number of new top-level domains were added, some of which had more letters in them (e.g., '''.museum'''), and as of 2013 a huge expansion is in progress which is expected to see new domain endings by the hundreds.