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three month ago I have site registered at co.cc. I want to know how they create domain name like ".cc" not ".com". I never seen site like this and .cc is not standard domain. So my question is how they create their own domain name? can I create my own domain like www.abc.jagdish insteda of www.abc.com?
I want to know how they create domain name like ".cc"
That is a (completely standard) country code top level domain, specifically the one for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. They got the domain by being the official registrar for that country or by buying it from them.
To create your own CCTLD you would first have to found a country. That seems like an excessive expense for the purposes of having a custom TLD.
You can't create your own domain. Wait it is possible to register your own extension but it will cost roughly $300k
Management of most top-level domains is delegated to responsible
organizations by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN), which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (IANA) and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.
http://www.icann.org/
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/
http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
You could apply for your own gTLD, it will cost you though. A couple of hundred thousand USD at least.
Read more: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/
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I have a website hosted in Switzerland and the domain registrar is in the US.
If I requested a transfer of the domain from the US to the registrar in Switzerland, what technical advantage would that give me, if any?
Are there any significant things to pay attention to apart from little things (such as price)?
If not I would leave it in the US then and just change dns records...
Thanks for any feedback!
The link between domain name and hosting (IP address) is simple an ip address corresponds to a name. But for a name to be valid and some people to have jobs there are additional steps:
Root name servers -> Authority name servers slave nemeservers
The registrars provide a list of authoritative name servers coupled with names to the root servers (this is called glue). Usually the person owning a domain can change the authoritative name servers via some panel.
That being said the only technical advantages i can think of are:
Price for the registration (per year)
Willingness of the registrar to shutdown a domain under pressure on or request
the registrar can change the Name servers and point the domain wherever he wants and can block you from changing this which effectively shuts down the domain.
Please also remember that in the end the registrars (the real ones also called NIC's) are not so much and usually can be found by simply typing .ext e.g. nic.com, nic.org
The other companies selling domains are just resellers and using any of them should be guided mostly by features they offer and price (e.g. how usable is their panel, how fast they respond to tickets, etc.)
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I registered several domain names (.de, .com) but even if I order the option to hide my whois record, it seems, there is always a way to retrieve my personal informations anyway (don't want everybody to be able to see where I live etc.).
There is surely a point I missed, or misunderstood.
Could someone clarify this to me?
There needs to be valid contact information in the whois database for a .com domain.
Some hosting providers offer privacy packets to hide your information.
I’m not sure if you can do the same with a .de domain name
You may enable or disable the privacy protect during your domain registration process.
But, the Privacy Protect option is not available for the following domain names: CA, .CO.NZ, .NET.NZ, .ORG.NZ, .TEL, .DE, .EU, .ES, .CO.IN, .NET.IN, .ORG.IN, .GEN.IN, .FIRM.IN, .IND.IN, .CO.UK, .ME.UK, .ORG.UK, .IN, .US, .ASIA.
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I'm having trouble understanding how certain websites use various domains for each website. In a nutshell how does say for instance myspace have uk.myspace.com, fr.myspace.com etc?
Do they put the main files in the above root then have individual sub domains for each country or do they have something weird going on in terms of country detection??
I cant find anything anywhere online?
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There is unlikely to be a single server involved, so talking about "files above the root" is meaningless. You'll be talking about some kind of fairly advanced routing infrastructure hiding dozens of different servers across many different locations. The routing logic is the part that decides which group of machines will be responsible for handling a given request.
The forwarding part is indeed "weird country detection", in the sense that some machine is responsible for performing an IP lookup and redirecting the user to an appropriate (possibly-geographically-closer) host. This might be done for performance reasons, or it might be done for content localisation and SEO reasons (e.g., the default language).
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Pretty much what the title says. I purchased a .com domain for my first personal site ever from gandi.net and I purchased shared hosting space from lithium hosting.
I haven't found any specific instructions for how to make the domain name use the hosting space I purchased, so if you guys could advise me on that, it'd be fantastic!
Thanks!
Typically you log in to the place you registered the Domain (gandi.net) and there should be a place to configure the Name servers for that domain. Lithium hosting should have info somewhere on what their nameservers are, so find that and put them on gandi.net. There maybe some additional setup you have to do on the Lithium side as well (like telling them what domain name you are hosting on their services).
You will have to point domain NameServers to your hosting eg NS1.YOURHOSTING.COM NS2.YOURHOSTING.COM, that is in your case pretty much it.
NS1.LITHIUMHOSTING.COM -> 184.82.230.74
NS2.LITHIUMHOSTING.COM -> 184.82.44.168
You have to tell the people from whom you purchased the domain that they should point it to your webspace which is identified by an other name or an ip address. Look for something like "CNAME Resource Record" or "A Resource Record".
If you cannot find a menu on the site to do this just contact the support.
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Like bit.ly, goo.gl, is.gd, j.mp, migre.me etc. use their own domain extension .ly, .gl, .gd, .mp, .me etc. How can I create my own personalize domain extension like .gbsif? Please help.
You can't. Only IANA can.
Management of most top-level domains is delegated to responsible organizations by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain
Here's a list of available TLDs:
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/
http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
You can run your own nameserver and add a new tld there. But this won't help you much, as the TLD will only be visible to the users who are using your own nameserver.
The "official" TLD like ".ly" are countries, see: official list
The ICANN website does have a Contact page, and one subject category is "New gTLDs", so they probably get requests like this a lot. I don't know if they'd actually create an extension just for you, but if they get a lot of the same requests, I'm sure they'd do something about it.