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New Top-Level DomainsTable 12-4.
Domain Description
jobs Employment-related websites
mobi Mobile devices
museum Museums
name Individuals
post Postal services
pro Professionals
tel Web-communication services
travel Travel industry
Besides these gTLDs, there are also ccTLDs (country code Top-Level Domains), which
cover specic countries, and, as its name suggests, by country code. e ccTLD for the
United States is us. e United States is also divided into regional subdomains, all of
which correspond to a state. e State of California, for example, is registered as ca.us.
e use of the classic gTLDs has traditionally been restricted to sites in the United States,
due to the initial U.S.-centricity of the Web, but that trend has changed. Now, it is almost
impossible to determine the physical location of websites that use the domains specied
in Tables 12-3 or 12-4.
Keep in mind that the networking environment throughout the world is ever changing
and improving. URLs are included for each Network Information Center (NIC) so that
more up-to-date information on each domain can be obtained.
Internationalized Domain Names
e widespread adoption of Unicode as the standard character set and encoding enabled
internationalization of not only OSes and applications, but of the Web’s namespace as
well. Prior to Unicode, the multitude of character sets and encodings ...