Hi, this may seem a little newbie-ish but I have a couple of questions
regarding domain names.

1) As I understand it, companies that sell domain names, all can see gTLDs
like .com, .org, etc. But which companies get to see more obscure domains
like .at (Austria), .nz (New Zealand), etc? Did ICANN (?) give national
governments the right to assign registry of these names to a specific
company or a series of companies, i.e. it is government policy as to who
registers country domains? I seem to recall that Tuvalu (tv) sold their
rights to an American company.

2) How would one find the appropriate place to register an obscure domain?
http://www.allwhois.com/ gives some information, but some countries do not
have "registries with whois URLs".

3) "The official rule, set up by Jon Postel in the early days of the
Internet, is that if a country is included in the international list of
countries (International Country Code Standard ISO 3166-1) then it is given
a domain.
It needn't be a certain size or a certain importance. It needn't even be an
independent state. If it was listed in ISO 3166-1, it got a domain. This has
led to the interesting situation that four of the 243 quoted country code
top-level domains don't even have anyone living on them.

Bouvet Island (.bv) is nothing but glaciers. Discovered in 1739 by the
French, taken over by the British in 1825 and then handed to the Norwegians
in 1928, it was only in 1977 that anything stayed permanently on the
island - a meteorological station.

The Heard Island and McDonald Islands (.hm) are completely barren. Handed
over to the Australians by the British in 1947, it does boast a few seals
and birds, but Club 18-30 it is not.

British Indian Ocean Territory (.io) has a joint UK/US "naval support
facility" on its biggest island, Diego Garcia, which sounds like the worst
posting in the military. But apart from that, not a dickie-bird.

And the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (.tf) are as inviting as they
sound. Discovered by the French in 1840, the only people to set foot on it
are researchers who, get this, study the native fauna."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01...ead_long_live/

How would one be able to register a .io name, for example?

4) Of course, I assume that one could buy a domain name from Company X, then
buy the web space and POP/SMTP e-mail addresses from Company Y?

Thanks!

Godaddy.com does some ccTLDs, including tv, nz and at.

one could buy a domain name from Company X, then buy the web space and
POP/SMTP e-mail addresses from Company Y

"Dodo" <dodo@no.fly> wrote in message
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How would Company Y know the person was authorised to use the domain name,
they purchased from Company X?

DNS.

company x = registrar
company y = hosting provider

Your domain name registrar is responsible for registering your domain's DNS
servers with the internet root servers. http://root-servers.org/

Your hosting provider will provide you with DNS servers for your domain.

You tell your registrar the DNS server names that your hosting provider
provides you.

"Andrew" <andrew@ijweqdiowehjoid.com> wrote in message
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In order to get your domain name to work with hosting - you have to set it
to "point" to the web host's server. Unless you have access to edit the
domain name record (generally a password protected control panel), you can't
"point" the domain name. Only the person who is authorized to use the
domain name should have access to edit the domain record.

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Andrew wrote:

You really, seriously, misspelled "yes", Andrew.

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Andrew wrote:
Owners are allowed to change DNS servers.


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"Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in message
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How has he misspelled "yes"?!?

Simon wrote:

He spelled it "How would Company Y know the person was authorised to use
the domain name, they purchased from Company X?"

The correct answer was "yes", not an incorrect "'no" in the form of a
rhetorical question.

As for the custom of using "you misspelled X" as a way of saying "no,
here's the correct answer, Y" with a little bit of humor, that's
a Usenet...well, custom. Once you've been around Usenet for a while,
you'll pick up on those kind of things.

If you have no sense of humor, you probably won't like some of them,
though.

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