Domain Names Internet

Though many people who purchase domain names do so with the intent of putting up a website, more and more internet users purchase domain names and hosting services with the solely to have their own e-mail domain. Though this used to cost over $35 per year, competition among domain name registration services.

2005-05-18: This document explores the issues in registration of internationalized domain names (IDNs). The basic IDN definition potentially allows a very large number of possible characters in domain names, and this richness may lead to serious user confusion about similar-looking names. To avoid this confusion, it is necessary for the IDN registration process to impose rules that disallow some otherwise-valid name combinations. This document suggests a set of mechanisms that registries might use to define and implement such rules, including adaptation of methods developed for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean domain names to other languages and scripts.

The Internet is often described as a “network of networks” because it is not a single physical entity but, in fact, hundreds of thousands of interconnected networks linking millions of computers around the world. Computers connected to the Internet are identified by a unique Internet Protocol (IP) number that designates their specific location, thereby making it possible to send and receive messages and to access information from computers anywhere on the Internet.

2005-08-23: Most of the Chinese domain names will have variants, this memo specifies the proposed procedure to register and administrate Chinese domain names based on [RFC3743] to avoid the conflict among the variants.