A special-use domain name is a domain name that is defined and reserved in the hierarchy of the Domain Name System of the Internet for special purposes...
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a generic top-level domain. A set of domain names is reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force as special-use domain names. The practice originated...
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Example.com (redirect from Example domain name)
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as special-use domain names for documentation purposes. The domain names are used widely in books, tutorials, sample network...
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Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control. Domain names are often used to identify...
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The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources...
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internationalized domain names (IDN) DNSSEC: presence of DS records for Domain Name System Security Extensions ICANN/IANA has created some special-use domain names which...
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.local (category Domain Name System)
The domain name .local is a special-use domain name reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) so that it may not be installed as a top-level...
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Localhost (section Special cases)
localhost The name may also be resolved by Domain Name System (DNS) servers, but there are special considerations governing the use of this name: An IPv4 or...
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List of ISO 3166 country codes (redirect from Country names)
and the United Nations (UN) use the full state name the Russian Federation for Russia. The country code top-level domain .sj has not been implemented...
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.arpa (category Domain Name System Security Extensions)
The domain name arpa is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. It is used predominantly for the management of technical...
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The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a suite of extension specifications by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for securing...
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A Domain Name System blocklist, Domain Name System-based blackhole list, Domain Name System blacklist (DNSBL) or real-time blackhole list (RBL) is a service...
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.onion (category Top-level domains)
.onion is a special-use top-level domain name designating an anonymous onion service, which was formerly known as a "hidden service", reachable via the...
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System and may not even participate in the Internet, but may use a similar domain name hierarchy. Historically the best known large networks in this...
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.al (category Domain name stubs)
names should be between 2 and 63 characters. Although the Albanian language has a number of special characters, the registry has not enabled the use of...
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Special use airspace (SUA) is a type of special airspaces in the United States designated for operations of a nature such that limitations may be imposed...
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code top-level domain is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. IDN ccTLDs are specially encoded domain names that are displayed...
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Dig (command) (redirect from Domain information groper)
dig is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS). dig is useful for network troubleshooting and for educational...
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A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory...
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internationalized domain names (IDNs). This representation is used when registering domains containing special characters. The ASCII representation starts with the...
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bodies such as the DNS root zone or the IANA Special-Use Domain Names registry. Unlike the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), which operates as a decentralized...
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ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (category Use dmy dates from February 2025)
3166-1 alpha-2 codes are used in the following standards: Starting in 1985, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes have been used in the Domain Name System as country code...
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.internal (category Top-level domains)
The name internal is reserved by ICANN as a domain name for private application use that may not be installed as a top-level domain in the Domain Name System...
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.ci (category Domain name stubs)
domain (ccTLD) for Côte d'Ivoire. In most situations, specific registrations are done using a second level domain name. Côte d'Ivoire also makes use of...
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.cn (category Country code top-level domains)
typically use .hk, .mo, and .tw, respectively, despite the availability of corresponding second-level domains under .cn for those regions. Domain names can...
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Reverse DNS lookup (category Domain Name System)
IP address from a domain name. The process of reverse resolving of an IP address uses PTR records. rDNS involves searching domain name registry and registrar...
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Punycode (category Internationalized domain names)
While the Domain Name System (DNS) technically supports arbitrary sequences of octets in domain name labels, the DNS standards recommend the use of the LDH...
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owner. Eminent domain, the right of a government to appropriate another person's property for public use Private domain / Public domain, places defined...
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"intellectual commons", and the "information commons". Although the term domain did not come into use until the mid-18th century, the concept can be traced back to...
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