Talk:Generic top-level domain

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Contents 1 .tv 2 not operational 3 .movie 4 .shop 5 Many problems

[edit] .tv

Why is this one not included?

It is not a generic top-level domain. .tv is a national domain. See .tv -- Cate 12:40, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

http://www.tv/en-def-8982ad226484/en/index.shtml?accepts=en-us%2Cen%3Bq%3D0.5 is for registering a domain name for a country?

I don't see the problem. Read .tv, CcTLD and maybe some other relevant articles! In general you can register foreign top level domains for any use (also unrelated to country). And this is not only for .tv but for a lot of other domains. Tuvalu decided to sell the "domain", but it is irrelevant. .tv is assigned to Tuvalu. Maybe you can also check www.iana.org (the authority who assign TLD domains). [and please sign your comments with ~~~~ . -- Cate 07:43, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] not operational

I think that most of gTLD marked as not operational should not be listed. Most of them are only proposal, never (or not yet) approved) -- Cate 13:43, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

That's not true; the ones that are listed have actually been given preliminary approval by ICANN, and are under negotiation to be addded to the root. Thus, they are likely to be actual domains eventually, and are notable enough to list. *Dan* 14:36, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Have you some references? I find nothing in iana and icann. I know they passed the preliminary stage, but really I don't think they get further. See http://icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/stld-public-comments.htm , they have still the status of proposal, nothing more. -- Cate 15:03, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

That document is over a year old, and ICANN has released statements since then - try scrolling a little on icann.org - with status updates, e.g. .jobs & .travel which refers to .cat, .post, and .mobi as "already entered into commercial and technical negotiations". Tverbeek 16:32, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Some of the relevant documents are even linked right here, from the articles on .jobs, .travel, .cat, .post, .xxx and .mobi. *Dan* 18:24, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

I think that that the not operational domains should be listed, but in a seperate category below the operational ones. Phantom784 20:17, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] .movie

What happened to .movie? I'm pretty sure it exists (or existed).

No, there hasn't ever been a .movie TLD. --Zundark 08:51, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I think one or more of the alternative DNS systems, or Internet-keyword systems mimicking DNS for users with a plugin, may have had such a pseudo-TLD at some point (new.net?). *Dan T.* 16:32, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] .shop

I'm seeing this advertised for sale by legit registrars. What's the story with it?

A .shop TLD was proposed some years ago, but nothing ever came of it. Perhaps those registrars aren't as legit as you think. --Zundark 08:51, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Many problems

I think this page needs a big overhaul, but I'm reluctant to undertake it before explaining why and hearing some feedback.

Generic TLDs are a subset of TLDs in which registrants are not required to meet any particular eligibility requirements pertinent to the suffix. This article confuses the distinction, as if any non country code TLD is a generic TLD.

Dot-com registrations were subject to screening until September 12, 1995 when Amendment 4 to the Cooperative Agreement between NSF and NSI instantiated a $100 fee for a two year registration. Dot-net and dot-org were added to the new regime that December.

Legacy TLDs such dot-mil, dot-gov and dot-edu have never been opened up as generic TLDs, and neither have most of the TLDs added under ICANN. The only new ones are dot-biz and dot-info.

You forget to sign your comment

Hmm. I think you confuse the term "generic" with the term "sponsored/unsponsored", as used in IANA/ICANN documentation. The Generic TLD are (nearly) all non CC (country code) TLD, as you see in http://www.iana.org/gtld/gtld.htm. Cate 13:37, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

And there are many degrees of restrictions; technically, .biz does have a supposed restriction to business use only, though it's only enforced by (rarely done) later challenge rather than at registration time. .net and .org continued to have some degree of (haphazardly enforced) restriction for a year or two after 1995, as I recall. .info is the only TLD that was explicitly created to be open for completely unrestricted registrations. *Dan T.* 16:30, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, you're right, but...

Allowing that "gTLD" will be used as ICANN now defines things (which is fine), it seems to me that the category includes some quite diverse kinds (unrestricted and restricted). Why are dot-edu and dot-mil listed as unsponosred? It strikes me as odd that this page bothers to describe seemingly trivial things like pseudo, proposed, unofficial and expired domains without better clarifying those other distinctions. Also, the text ignores the fact that Postel endorsed and promoted the IAHC's proposal, even though they ignored his draft. flywheel 16:41, 18 July 2006 (UTC)