Domain Name Management

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Domain Name Management

• Budi RahardjoIndonesia Network Information
  Center (IDNIC)budi_at_idnic.net.id

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Domain Name (DNS)

• Computers work with numbers, humans work with
  names
• Translation between names and numbers domain
  name system (DNS)
• www.yahoo.com
• www.idnic.net.id

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Roles of Domain Name

• Address
• Where emails should go
• web store
• Identity
• Company identity (eg. Yahoo.com)
• Individual / role identity (br_at_paume.itb.ac.id)
• Extremely important!

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Domain Name Classification

• gTLD
• .com, .net, .org
• Managed by InterNIC (Network Solutions, Inc.),
  and acredited registars
• ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain)
• .ID, .JP, .SG, .US,
• Managed by local TLDseg. Indonesia TLD-ID, IDNIC

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Domain Name Organizations

• IANA
• ICANN
• DNSO, GAC, CCTLD,
• Regional APTLD (Asia Pacific), CENTR
• TLDs in many countries

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Base of ccTLD

• RFC 1591

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IDNIC

• Managing .ID
• TLD-ID Budi RahardjoIDNIC Budi Rahardjo (ITB),
  Maman Sutarman (UI)
• Domains
• ac, co, go, mil, or, net, sch, web

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IDNIC 2

• Each second level domain (SLD) has its own rule
  to register
• ac.id for academic entity providing at least D1
  degree
• co.id for company formally registered in
  Indonesia
• Information inhttp//www.idnic.net.id

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Growth of .ID domains
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Issues

• Roles of IANA, ICANN, ccTLD,
• Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
• Trademark
• Servicemark
• Cybersquatting