What's in a name?QA I have seen a couple of ads for registering with .ws or .cc, if your ideal domain name is already a .com. Are these alternatives services on the up and up? --G.W. James New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. It comes as no surprise that cyberspace is getting more and more crowded. Most people are familiar with three generic top-level domain See Internet domain name. names: .com, .net, and .org, as well second-level domain In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a second-level domain (SLD) is a domain that is directly below a top-level domain (TLD). For example, in wikipedia.org, wikipedia is the second-level domain of the .org TLD. names, such as .gov and .edu. While Network Solutions and Register.com are the more commonly known registrars, there are some 22 registrars that compete for business. Part of the mix is some 250 top-level country code domain name holders such as .cc, which belongs to the Cocos Islands (in the Indian Ocean), and .ws, Western Samoa. Country code domains work in the same way as generic domains; however, they may be subject to different rules, regulations, and fees, according to the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number ; www.icann.com), the nonprofit entity that oversees the technical administration of the Internet. Network Solutions charges $35 per year and provides e-mail, dotcom directory, Web hosting, and l0-year registration. Register.com also charges $35 per year. In comparison, Worldsite.ws, a registrar for .ws domains, charges $35 for four-plus-letter names and $1,000 per year for three-letter names. ENic.cc, a registrar for .cc, charges $100 every two years. For now, a moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. with a .cc or .ws suffix may not seem appealing. But the scarcity of prime dotcom names could soon change that. ICANN has been considering creating additional generic top-level domain names, such as .inc, .corp, .bank, .store, and .news. Mail your technology-related concerns to Cyberwise at BLACK ENTERPRISE, 130 Fifth Ave., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10011, or send an e-mail to donaldsons@blackenterprise.com. |
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