huckbarry
03-31-2002, 11:40 AM
I was wandering if there was somehow a place that like sells extinsions like you can make take this for example: hosting.mcg would there be anybody that provides services like that? :)
 | View Full Version : Your own domain extinsion Abu Mami 03-31-2002, 12:11 PM Of course there is. And of course it would be a scam. In other words... no, this doesn't exist, but I'm sure someone will try to sell it. huckbarry 03-31-2002, 12:32 PM Yea, but how did .com, .net and them get started? thewitt 03-31-2002, 12:49 PM As you can probably imagine, if we simply had anarchy over domain extensions (TLDs), there would be no way to navigate the Internet. See www.iana.org for more information on how the process works. The short story is you will not likely be able to add your own domain extension. Sorry. The companies that are trying to do so are attempting to convice the world to support an "alternate root" system. This is silly at best, and will result in many people losing lots of money in the process. -t huckbarry 03-31-2002, 01:06 PM Originally posted by thewitt As you can probably imagine, if we simply had anarchy over domain extensions (TLDs), there would be no way to navigate the Internet. See www.iana.org for more information on how the process works. The short story is you will not likely be able to add your own domain extension. Sorry. The companies that are trying to do so are attempting to convice the world to support an "alternate root" system. This is silly at best, and will result in many people losing lots of money in the process. -t Thanks ;) d99janh 04-05-2002, 05:53 AM Actually you can build your very own domain-name system by simply making your own webbrowser (not too hard in Java). You just have to build the extension into the browser and make the special extension URLs point to normal urls! (not very hard either). However this is not very useful, as only you will be using your browser (But it is quite interesting). Actually you can build a javascript that does almost the same thing. The user writes the url in a text field, and are then redirected to a page somewhere (ie the homemade URL "www.janne.rules" can be made to point to "www.somehost.com/janne"). This system can actually be used (even if only for fun), I once made a frame-using version of it, where the text-field was located in the top frame. If only you could make it integrate with all browsers in the world.... ;) /Janne |