Domain Name Registration, ICANN, Registrars & Hosting Options Aaron Vanderwielen Brittany Iverson
Getting Ready to Publish a Website What you need to know How the Domain Name System (DNS) works ICANN involvement Which Registrar you are going to use Hosting options
Domain Name System (DNS) Naming system built on a distributed database address (A) records mail exchanger (MX) records name server (NS) records Translates hostnames into IP addresses “Phone book” www.example.com --> 192.0.32.10 (IPv4)
ICANN Manages IP address spaces Top Level Domains (TLDs) Com, gov, edu, etc.
IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) Operated by ICANN delegates allocations of IP address blocks to Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). Delegates administrative responsibility of “top- level domains”
Domain Name Registrars Manage the reservation of domain names The maximum registration: 10 years Largest registrar: Go Daddy Other successful registrars eNOM, Network Solutions, Register.com Transfer scams (Domain Slamming) VeriSign lawsuit in 2002 http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global/
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