Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Programming Discussion : about a domain system like uni.cc

[serversolutions]

I Would like to have a service like uni.cc where they had a subdomain/domain like system where you you register a domain and have it pointing to dns name server is this possible but i am able to create my own extensions eg .com.org and ss.nz and stuff like that?

[hozt]

You can do this without much work in php.

$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] will return the domain that the user typed in. You can easily strip out the www. and parse it to get the subdomain.

Once you have the subdomain do a lookup in a table or a flat file for the matching name. Then forward the user to the domain.

You can not create your own top level extension. Icann has the power to do this.

[serversolutions]

How can i be a company like icaan?

[nuk3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icann

[serversolutions]

So how can i become like Icann?

[brendandonhu]

You don't. ICANN handles top level domains, and thats it.

[serversolutions]

what if i can is that possible?

[brendandonhu]

No, not really.

[craigj]

services like uni.cc may "emulate" having their own tld, by using a subdomain solution, uni.cc is a top level domain, they alllow users a free sub domain, e.g user.uni.cc