Questions tagged [tld]
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Can top level domains disappear if countries cease to exist / malfunction?
This question comes from a possibly stupid idea, but I want to make sure its as not-stupid as possible.
I want to tattoo a QR code on my arm, that encodes a website. The domain has to be as short as possible for the QR to be as small as possible.…
Rob
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How to whois new TLDs?
How can I look up new TLDs, such as .email, .guru, etc., using the whois command in linux?
Running whois on a new TLD only gives the response:
No whois server is known for this kind of object.
Paul
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Teach Google Chrome to understand custom TLD
For development on local machine I've set domains with custom top level domain .nt. But Google Chrome doesn't know about this top level domain, so, if I enter example.nt in location bar, then google doesn't open that location, but opens search with…
tig
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What happens to country specific TLD's in a war involving that country?
I'm trying to find out what could happen, and what is likely to happen - I'm based in the UK and own UK domains as well as foreign domains such as Russian and USA TLD's, eg: domain.co.uk, domain.ru, domain.us.
I don't fully understand how DNS works,…
Scerno
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What about this special domain "to."
Today I saw this special domain and I'm really wondering.
http://to./
How it's possible. Where can I register this type of domains :)
Thank you.
Temüjin
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Why don't TLDs resolve?
Why aren't there any services on TLDs?
Is there any particular reason there aren't websites at http://org/ or http://com/ ?
It seems like it would be the ideal place to put information about the registries themselves.
Adrien J
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Make firefox ignore common file extensions as TLD's
When I'm looking for information on a certain JS or CSS framework, I'm typing in (for example) d3.js or skeleton.css in Firefox. Firefox starts treating it like a domain name, and goes to www.d3.js.
How can I make Firefox ignore certain extensions…
Praetore
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Use custom, local domain for virtual machine in Firefox
I have set up my Windows development system with VMWare Workstation to host a Linux server on which I edit test sites. I have assigned the domain "vm" to that virtual machine's IP address, so that any subdomain resolves to my virtual machine's…
ringmaster
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How do I make Chrome accept ".test" as a valid TLD?
When I enter, say, xyz.test in the Chrome address bar, then Chrome initiates a search. How do I make Chrome always treat .test as a top level domain, just like .com and all the others?
I know that I can just put http:// in front, but I tend to…
feklee
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How does the http://to./ domain work?
Possible Duplicate:
How does http://to./ work?
Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) posted a tweet a few days ago, congratulating http://to./ for launching the shortest URL shortener, and breaking every URL matching regex. I was wondering how the heck…
Igal Tabachnik
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How can I protect old email accounts when I sell a domain with an MX address?
A long time ago I set up a bunch of TLDs and started using those to host email addresses. It never occurred to me that if I sold those TLDs, someone could buy one, and if they guessed the email address I used then have access to all of the accounts…
Freeman
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About reserved domains name
According to this wikipedia article
Followings are reserved domains:
example: reserved for use in examples
invalid: reserved for use in obviously invalid domain names
localhost: reserved to avoid conflict with the traditional use of localhost
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Jeegar Patel
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One-word link for intranet - top level domain (tld) setup with BIND 9
While it seems to be a kind of typical pattern for the intranet ... however haven't been able to find the right and working solution for it. I'm trying to set up the intranet site accessible by the link: http:// teamwork/ and created for this a…
technogeekie
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Which TLD's require TCP access to the nameserver?
Has anybody got a list of all TLD's which require and only allow nameservers with TCP enabled?
Our ISP who provides our nameservers, only supports adding domains for UDP answers to their nameservers, so would be good to know which TLD's I cant use…
leenix
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Why do certain TLD do not have support for a WHOIS query?
Is there a full list of these top level domains (TLD) that do not support WHOIS query?
13months
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