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Domains and Addresses.
I don’t know enough about the internet naming conventions to know whether this is actually true:
In the internet world, country codes such as.uk, and generic suffixes such as.com and.net, are known as top-level domains. The second-level domain is whatever precedes this suffix: for example.co,.ac or.gov. But some of our most important national institutions - Parliament, the police, the British Library and, rather curiously, the Ministry of Defence - have been allowed to dispense with a shared second-level domain. Instead, they use their own name or initials - for example, www.police.uk - enhancing their status while stressing their independence.
The obvious address for Britain's supreme court should therefore be www.supremecourt.uk - a vacant site, but one that Lord Hope has been refused.
Officials told him it would be "too expensive" to buy - a minimum of £125,000. And they say there is no guarantee that the naming committees would allow "supremecourt" to be a second-level domain, given that it will be a small institution and very few email addresses would be derived from it.
Any ideas? Why would a vacant name cost so much? Do all the root servers have to be reprogrammed or something?
http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2005/11/domains_and_add.html
I don’t know enough about the internet naming conventions to know whether this is actually true:
In the internet world, country codes such as.uk, and generic suffixes such as.com and.net, are known as top-level domains. The second-level domain is whatever precedes this suffix: for example.co,.ac or.gov. But some of our most important national institutions - Parliament, the police, the British Library and, rather curiously, the Ministry of Defence - have been allowed to dispense with a shared second-level domain. Instead, they use their own name or initials - for example, www.police.uk - enhancing their status while stressing their independence.
The obvious address for Britain's supreme court should therefore be www.supremecourt.uk - a vacant site, but one that Lord Hope has been refused.
Officials told him it would be "too expensive" to buy - a minimum of £125,000. And they say there is no guarantee that the naming committees would allow "supremecourt" to be a second-level domain, given that it will be a small institution and very few email addresses would be derived from it.
Any ideas? Why would a vacant name cost so much? Do all the root servers have to be reprogrammed or something?
http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2005/11/domains_and_add.html
