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.cx christmas islands

may anyone include the tld ".cx" for "christmas islands"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.183.76.244 (talk) 20:56, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Domain suffix

Domain suffix redirects to this page but the term is nowhere to be found in the article. Is Domain suffix a synonym for TLD? I believe Domain suffix has at least one other meaning --Kvng (talk) 21:56, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Domain suffix is not really part of the language used in the Domain Name System. I know of no definitive use of the term in standards documents, however, it has been used to stand for the rest of a FQDN, if only a host or lower level DNS label is known, i.e., example.com would be the domain suffix to use to resolve the host 'www' in the DNS. Only secondary sources, usually laymen writing, seem to use term as a synonym for TLD. Kbrose (talk) 22:16, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The networking configuration dialogs in Windows use Domain suffix in the way you describe. At best there are multiple meanings of the term. I'll wait and see if anyone else has input before doing any editing --Kvng (talk) 22:24, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Non-latin top domains

Owing to the decision at ICANN yesterday, there will soon be need for a new section here about TLDs written in non-latin alphabets. No doubt there will be quite some of these; already last year ICANN gave up its policy that there must be only a small, restricted list of non-national top domains. So in ten years we may likely have lots of top domains relatiing to different cities, churches, business sectors and interests. Would be interesting to hear what the first new top domains will be, and how it will affect the structure of the web. For one thing, won't this create new demands on the capacity of web browsers, web servers and keyboards, if you're native to one language but want to be able to visit or direct at web addresses written in another script, without necessarily copy-pasting the URL? /Strausszek (talk) 02:41, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

.ly vs. Libya ?

2011 Libyan uprising, Internet kill switch, Why Libya can't shut down bit.ly --Webmgr (talk) 09:02, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

translations or transliterations?

as it is:

"ICANN implemented a set of IDN top-level domains that are translations of the name example.test into each language's script."

as it should be (1): "(...) that are transliterations of the name example.test into each language's script."

as it should be (2): "(...) that are translations of the name example.test into each language." --Elvenmuse (talk) 04:39, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bare-word domains

There's currently some controversy over whether top-level domains should be allowed in DNS as "bare words", that is, with no subdomain. With ICANN considering a huge new list of TLDs, many of which are company names, there will soon be corporate TLDs. Names from "APPLE" through "WALMART" are on the list. Whether putting "WALMART" into a browser gets WalMart's TLD or a search is currently being discussed by browser developers. --John Nagle (talk) 22:14, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Confusion over meaning

There seems to be widespread confusion over what a TLD is. Many people are using TLD to refer to a registered domain, before prefixes such as www. For example according to this Google Analytics documenation example-petstore.com and my-example-blog.com are examples of TLDs. --83.236.128.138 (talk) 12:14, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Domain name seizures section

Is this particularly relevant to Top-level domains? 79.229.129.155 (talk) 20:53, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nope. It belongs at domain name, where it is already included. I've removed it from this article. Mindmatrix 14:29, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Evaluative Domains Terminated?

The eleven Evaluative Internationalized Domains are no longer in the IANA Root Zone database at [[1]] or on the IANA active TLD list at [[2]] While I don't see an IANA announcement, it looks as though these domains have been terminated. The section of this wiki addressing those domains could either be deleted or moved to a historical section.

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