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The Public Suffix List (PSL) is a community-maintained list of rules that describe the internet domain name suffixes under which independent organisations can register their own sites. Entries on the list are referred to as effective top-level domains ( eTLDs ), [ 1 ] and contain commonly used suffixes like com , net and co.uk , as well as ...
Starfield Technologies is a company founded as a spin-off from GoDaddy in 2003, [1] the American internet domain registrar and web hosting company that also sells e-business related software and services. Starfield handles research and design for GoDaddy's web based services, developing technologies and tools to support the company and their ...
A Canonical Name (CNAME) record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that maps one domain name (an alias) to another (the canonical name). [1]This can prove convenient when running multiple services (like an FTP server and a web server, each running on different ports) from a single IP address.
The Domain Name System (DNS) has a tree structure or hierarchy, which includes nodes on the tree being a domain name. A subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain. Each label may contain from 0 to 63 octets. [2] The full domain name may not exceed a total length of 253 ASCII characters in its textual representation. [3]
On December 19, 2006, GoDaddy received a third-party complaint of invalid domain contact information in the WHOIS database for the domain FamilyAlbum.com. [6] GoDaddy wrote a letter to the owner of FamilyAlbum.com saying, "Whenever we receive a complaint, we are required by ICANN regulations to initiate an investigation as to whether the contact data displaying in the WHOIS database is valid ...
In 1999, a group of employees at Jomax Technologies were brainstorming a new company name, with "Big Daddy" being a popular suggestion. However, finding this domain name already taken, "Go Daddy" was purchased instead. [9] Parsons believed this to be a simple and memorable name. [9] Jomax Technologies rebranded to GoDaddy in February 2006. [10]
Split-horizon DNS can provide a mechanism for security and privacy management by logical or physical separation of DNS information for network-internal access (within an administrative domain, e.g., company) and access from an unsecure, public network (e.g. the Internet).
A drop catcher is a domain name registrar that offers the service of attempting to quickly register a given domain name for a customer if that name becomes available—that is, to "catch" a "dropped" name—when the domain name's registration expires and is then deleted, either because the registrant abandons the domain or because the ...