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Can somebody explain why and how "to." domain works? It's not usual.
http://to./
is equivalent to http://to/ The site is simply hosted on the top level domain to.
The same could be hosted at http://com/ if whoever is in charge of com wanted to. You typically see it with the . like http://to./ so it doesn't resolve to a local machine named to or get resolved by the browser incorrectly.
The . is superfluous—the actual domain is http://to/, but Firefox, at the very least, converts that to http://www.to.com/, and that's not what we're going for at all. Additional . characters on each side don't mean anything, and appending a . lets the browser know that that's all we want. http://.to/ should also work, but Firefox seems to want to point it to http://www.to/.
.to is a top-level domain that belongs to Tonga, and the company in charge of allocating domain names has created one with no second-level domain, which is perfectly legal.
Are you referring to the Tonga top-level domain? If so, it's just another TLD for a specific country.
I suspect that you're asking about the .to ccTLD for the country of Tonga.
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I have on website but this site has no meaning full domain name but have good ranking on internet. I want to make this like this website will be pointed by two different domain names.
please suggest me that how can i do this. please give me easy steps for doing this.
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Under each of your domains you should have DNS settings so go there and put the same DNS for each domain or you can set DNS for the first on and redirection for the second one.
You can just setup DNS records for both domains to point to the IP of your server.
If you have virtual hosts configured on your server, you may need to create an entry for both domain names.
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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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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.
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How to make custom domains like these
http://fb.me
http://youtu.be
You buy them from registrars based in Montenegro and Belgium respectively.
Domain name "youtu.be" is already owned by Google.
Domain name "fb.me" belongs to facebook.com
You can check if domain name is already registered for example here: http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp
Well, just register the domain name you want (something short probably).
If you want a URL shortener (as the http://youtu.be example) you will need to point this domain to a web application that will convert the short form to the original URL. You can download and install a small webapp (e.g. shortenr) that does, need need to write one yourself.