I am not sure i'm asking this in the correct forum, but does anyone know the answer to this. Who owns the "." dot?
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Verisign holds the registry for ".com". Not sure what you mean by "owning" the dot.
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what is the dot....it's on the current CISCO CCNA course and the question has been asked as to who owns the "."
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No one. The dot is simply used to separate different parts of a domain name.
You might as well ask who owns the space between your first and your last name.
The dot isn't a domain, or part of a domain, or anything else. It's simply part of the syntax commonly used to describe domains. -
Sounds like a trick question to me,
If in doubt, just put Bill Gates, or the Military/NWO.
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Benjamin Franklin.
You can't own the "." before com, net, org, etc. The part both before and after are owned, but not the dot itself. -
you own the car ... not the Road.
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I'll rephrase then....what does the . represent in the domain name, it was obviously put there for a reason. It's not like they are needed for extension purposes.
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It's there so that you can have a "google" subdomain under the "com" top level domain.
It's simply there because we need to be able to represent an unknown number of domain names, so we need *something* to separate them.
If we didn't have the dot, google would have to buy the domain "googlecom".
Now, how exactly would we know that this comes under the "com" top level domain?
How would we distinguish it from someone who bought "goo.gle.com"?
That too would be written as "googlecom".
That's all the . is for. To separate parts of the domain name, so that it can be extended with new domains (for example .com can be extended to encompass both a google.com domain and microsoft.com) -
I think what you are trying to allude to is the dot at the very end of *****.com . that is implied, and not typed. These are serviced by the root name servers, of which there are 13 on the Internet throughout the world.
The root name servers have the responsibility of the ending dot in all internet addresses. These direct you to the top level domain servers (com, net, us)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver
To answer your question, I think InterNIC (Internet Network Information Center) owns the root name space.
EDIT: Actually, it's now ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). InterNIC was replaced by ICANN in 1998. And the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) under ICANN is the administrator of the DNS Root Zone. -
Thank You WackyT knew we would get there eventually....So its root level domain, above top-level?
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DNS works from right to left.
First search is for root level (.) to top level (com, net, edu, org, Et cetera)
Second is for top level to second level (microsoft, yahoo, google, Et cetera)
Who Owns The "." in .com
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