Dr. Michael D. Featherstone

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Introduction to e-Commerce
Domain Names

• Dr. Michael D. Featherstone
• Fall 2009

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Domain Names
Fundamental building block of any electronic
business. 2,300,000 new domain names per month
in the dot-com and dot-net domains (VeriSign,
December 2008).
So far in 2009, there are four and a half
websites created EVERY SECOND as the web
continues to expand.
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Domain Names
Make it easier for us humans We Like Names,
Computers Like Numbers Not unlike telephone books
Brownkowski, John A .. 256-555-2727 www.mensbo
wties.com 75.144.42.2
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IP Address Rules
FOUR OCTETS OF NUMBERS ie. 1.2.3.4
VALID RANGE FOR EACH OCTET is 0-255
EACH OCTET is separated by a dot. 0.123.4.255
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Domain Name Resolution
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• Dot-com Domain Name File from a VeriSign Root
  Server

FUJITSU NS NS1.FUJITSU WPD NS DNS1.UTELFLA WRENCH
NS ENESTWO.WRENCH BAKA NS WAV2.CLARITYCONNECT.NET.
CLMCPA NS NS2.MYSUPERPAGESHOSTING PJDICK NS
CMTU.MT.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET. CARBONATION NS
NS6.HOSTEXCELLENCE SHIELDMARK NS NS1.SITEBYTES.NL.
NS1.LOUDOUNCOUNTYJAILINMATES A 70.84.117.101 NS2.V
TRECORDER A 70.84.117.102 NS1.BROWARDNOTARYPUBLIC
A 70.84.117.101 NS2.DEOFFENDERS A
70.84.117.102 NS2.LIVINGSTONCOUNTYRECORDS A
70.84.117.102 NS1.NEPROPERTYINFO A
70.84.117.101 NS2.BN47W3 A 69.90.126.71 NS2.FREEUS
PUBLICRECORDS A 70.84.117.102
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The .aero domain is reserved for members of the
air-transport industry and is sponsored by
Société Internationale de Télécommunications
Aéronautiques (SITA). The .biz domain is
restricted to businesses and is operated by
NeuLevel, Inc. The .cat domain is reserved for
the Catalan linguistic and cultural community and
is sponsored by Fundació puntCat The .com domain
is operated by VeriSign Global Registry Services.
The .coop domain is reserved for cooperative
associations and is sponsored by Dot Cooperation
LLC. The .info domain is operated by Afilias
Limited. The .jobs domain is reserved for human
resource managers and is sponsored by Employ
Media LLC. The .mobi domain is reserved for
consumers and providers of mobile products and
services and is sponsored by mTLD Top Level
Domain, Ltd. The .museum domain is reserved for
museums and is sponsored by the Museum Domain
Management Association. The .name domain is
reserved for individuals and is operated by
Global Name Registry. The .net domain is
operated by VeriSign Global Registry Services.
The .org domain is operated by Public Interest
Registry. It is intended to serve the
noncommercial community, but all are eligible to
register within .org. The .pro domain is
restricted to credentialed professionals and
related entities and is operated by RegistryPro.
The .travel domain is reserved for entities
whose primary area of activity is in the travel
industry and is sponsored by Tralliance
Corporation. Registrations in the domains
listed above may be made through dozens of
competitive registrars. For a list of the
currently operating accredited registrars, go to
the InterNIC site. Information about becoming an
accredited registrar is available on the ICANN
site. The .gov domain is reserved exclusively
for the United States Government. It is operated
by the US General Services Administration. The
.edu domain is reserved for postsecondary
institutions accredited by an agency on the U.S.
Department of Education's list of Nationally
Recognized Accrediting Agencies and is registered
only through Educause. The .mil domain is
reserved exclusively for the United States
Military. It is operated by the US DoD Network
Information Center. The .int domain is used only
for registering organizations established by
international treaties between governments. It is
operated by the IANA .int Domain Registry.
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pm Saint Pierre and Miquelon .pn Pitcairn
Island .pr Puerto Rico .ps Palestinian
Territory, Occupied .pt Portugal .pw
Palau .py Paraguay .qa Qatar .re
Reunion Island .ro Romania .rs Serbia .ru
Russian Federation .rw Rwanda .sa
Saudi Arabia .sb Solomon Islands .sc
Seychelles .sd Sudan .se Sweden .sg
Singapore .sh Saint Helena .si
Slovenia ..su Soviet Union (being phased
out) .sv El Salvador .sy Syrian Arab
Republic .sz Swaziland .tc Turks and
Caicos Islands .td Chad .tg Togo .th
Thailand .tj Tajikistan .tk Tokelau .tl
Timor-Leste .tm Turkmenistan .tn
Tunisia .to Tonga .tp East Timor .tr
Turkey .tt Trinidad and Tobago .tv
Tuvalu .tw Taiwan .tz Tanzania .ua
Ukraine .ug Uganda .uk United Kingdom .um
United States Minor Outlying Islands .us
United States .uy Uruguay .uz
Uzbekistan .va Holy See (Vatican City
State) .vc Saint Vincent and the
ls Lesotho .lt Lithuania .lu
Luxembourg .lv Latvia .ly Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya .ma Morocco .mc Monaco .md
Moldova, Republic of .me Montenegro .mg
Madagascar .mh Marshall Islands .mk
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of .ml
Mali .mm Myanmar .mn Mongolia .mo
Macao .mp Northern Mariana Islands .mq
Martinique .mr Mauritania .ms
Montserrat .mt Malta .mu Mauritius .mv
Maldives .mw Malawi .mx Mexico .my
Malaysia .mz Mozambique .na Namibia .nc
New Caledonia .ne Niger .nf Norfolk
Island .ng Nigeria .ni Nicaragua .nl
Netherlands .no Norway .np Nepal .nr
Nauru .nu Niue .nz New Zealand .om
Oman .pa Panama .pe Peru .pf French
Polynesia .pg Papua New Guinea .ph
Philippines .pk Pakistan .pl Poland .
gs South Georgia and the South Sandwich
Islands .gt Guatemala .gu Guam .gw
Guinea-Bissau .gy Guyana .hk Hong
Kong .hm Heard and McDonald Islands .hn
Honduras .hr Croatia/Hrvatska .ht
Haiti .hu Hungary .id Indonesia .ie
Ireland .il Israel .im Isle of Man .in
India .io British Indian Ocean Territory .iq
Iraq .ir Iran, Islamic Republic of .is
Iceland .it Italy .je Jersey .jm
Jamaica .jo Jordan .jp Japan .ke
Kenya .kg Kyrgyzstan .kh Cambodia .ki
Kiribati .km Comoros .kn Saint Kitts and
Nevis .kp Korea, Democratic People's
Republic .kr Korea, Republic of .kw
Kuwait .ky Cayman Islands .kz
Kazakhstan .la Lao People's Democratic
Republic .lb Lebanon .lc Saint Lucia .li
Liechtenstein .lk Sri Lanka .lr Liberia
.ac Ascension Island .ad Andorra .ae
United Arab Emirates .af Afghanistan .ag
Antigua and Barbuda .ai Anguilla .al
Albania .am Armenia .an Netherlands
Antilles .ao Angola .aq Antarctica .ar
Argentina .as American Samoa .at
Austria .au Australia .aw Aruba .ax
Aland Islands .az Azerbaijan .ba Bosnia
and Herzegovina .bb Barbados .bd
Bangladesh .be Belgium .bf Burkina
Faso .bg Bulgaria .bh Bahrain .bi
Burundi .bj Benin .bm Bermuda .bn
Brunei Darussalam .bo Bolivia .br
Brazil .bs Bahamas .bt Bhutan .bv
Bouvet Island .bw Botswana .by
Belarus .bz Belize .ca Canada .cc
Cocos (Keeling) Islands .cd Congo, The
Democratic Republic of the .cf Central
African Republic .cg Congo, Republic of .ch
Switzerland
.cm Cameroon .cn China .co
Colombia .cr Costa Rica .cu Cuba .cv
Cape Verde .cx Christmas Island .cy
Cyprus .cz Czech Republic .de Germany .dj
Djibouti .dk Denmark .dm Dominica .do
Dominican Republic .dz Algeria .ec
Ecuador .ee Estonia .eg Egypt .eh
Western Sahara .er Eritrea .es Spain .et
Ethiopia .eu European Union .fi
Finland .fj Fiji .fk Falkland Islands
(Malvinas) .fm Micronesia, Federated States
of .fo Faroe Islands .fr France .ga
Gabon .gb United Kingdom .gd Grenada .ge
Georgia .gf French Guiana .gg
Guernsey .gh Ghana .gi Gibraltar .gl
Greenland .gm Gambia .gn Guinea .gp
Guadeloupe .gq Equatorial Guinea .gr
Greece .
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Video on the Internet continues to grow and users
are seeking new methods of finding multimedia
content on the Web. The .tv domain name provides
a global opportunity for users to find a
media-rich Web site of their choice. By using a
.tv Web address, companies and individuals can
offer online viewers a simple and easily
recognizable gateway to finding rich media
content on the Internet.
Source VeriSign
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www.scu.edu
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www.scu.edu
www.scu.edu.au
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Source VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief,
December 2008
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Source VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief,
December 2008
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Domain Names
Source VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief,
December 2008
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This Concludes Todays Presentation

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