According to this item, It appears that a fundamental change in Top Level Domain (TLD) Names may be coming, either in the form of eliminating the .io TLD, or by changing it to a non-Country Code (cc) TLD. In the event that this TLD is eliminated (the process involves a five-year transitional phase), anyone who’s associated with such a domain may want to begin to consider making plans for this eventuality sooner rather than later.
For more information, you can read the linked item (above),
Ernie
I was confused . At first I thought they were eliminating all country domain codes, but no, it only applies the the British Indian Ocean Territory (.io).
I’m sorry I didn’t make that clear, I should have. I simply thought the topic to be interesting, and that anyone who works with any servers on .io domains should know about the potential of the upcoming change.
Ernie
I have seen several .io domains in the last few weeks and wondered where just did not have time to check out.
The internet is a moving target hard to keep up with some ideas
Thanks for sharing the link
I’m happy to help! I hope this thread helps those who own, or manage/work on systems that reside on .io domains. It would be a shame for some, perhaps vital, services to suffer service interruptions, simply because the people who need to know about this upcoming change, don’t.
Ernie
There are so many tld on the go now its hard to understand what or where 5hey are, before easy stuff
.com america
.co.uk united kingdom
.fr france
But now almost anything goes
Not sure how the big companies do, imagine ford (as in cars) .com, .co.uk 9k but then expand throughout the world the cost of domain names, if they dont register in one country will they loose the use of the name with that suffix
If you want to have your website registered in more than one country, you must register it in each country where you want your site, although I don’t see any point in that. Websites are usually accessible world-wide, so if you register the domain name you want in your home country, people all over the world can access it. Why go to the extra cost of multiple registrations?
Ernie
The only .io domain I’m aware of or ever used is itch.io - an indy “game store”…
I’ve bought a few “games” from them in the past…
I used to work for a state government ISP (it was actually managed by the company I worked for - a “telco”) - we had to maintain white, grey and blacklists (for websites and email).
A bunch of developers at one department developed automation scripts in tcl/tk (“tickle”) - there’s an “industry standard” interface engine - which takes tcl/tk scripts as “plugins” - and their favourite site for grabbing and sharing was registered at *.tk - which is registered to a Pacific Island nation - and - widely used by hackers and fraudsters and mostly blacklisted - especially in corporate networks.
But if you dont do that what is there to stop me registering ford.paul and missleading customers away from the main site to mine.
Like trademarks ?
That is only a problem for the commercial world. It is not internet’s problem.
Serious use of the internet for education and science and general information does not have this issue
I agree, but there are more companies with web sites, just wonder how they get on.
Better call Paul ? :
(from memory - the new testament identity - Paul, was originally a hellenized Jew who was called Saul)
i agree, the internet has been taken over by the commercial world. They have brought more problems than they have helped overcome. They need to put in more. DNS would be a good place to start.
St Paul had something to say about nearly everything, eg
” Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds"
Any idea how many dns there are, who controls them sound like a nightmare waiting to happen
Only 13 root servers
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/learning/dns/glossary/dns-root-server/
but anyone can make a nameserver or two, so up to twice the number of users.
Dont think i am clear in my mind the differences between name servers and DNS I thought the two were the same.
I use titan internet for most of my web sites and they have two nameservers that i know of but i had guessed they were DNS.
Perhaps this is simple but as i have never needed to know never looked further. I just build a site, buy a name, ftp it to the server and its live. Simple stuff for me without needing more.
IMNSHO, name servers on the Internet should have to be licensed, or belong to registrars, not the public. That way, bad actors might have a harder time messing with/corrupting them. What do you think?
Ernie
Sometimes people need to be able to set up their own nameserver on their local network. It used to be more common when internet links were slow, because it could cache stuff locally and save time with lookups.
So, do these local network DNS servers propagate their content across the Internet? If so, then my idea about licensing/authorizing/having registrars own all DNS servers may not work, unless the system was altered to block Local Network/privately owned DNS servers from propagating out across the Internet, and only importing DNS information from the Internet. Is this possible?
Ernie