Skip to Main Content
DNS on Windows Server 2003, 3rd Edition
book

DNS on Windows Server 2003, 3rd Edition

by Cricket Liu, Matt Larson, Robbie Allen
December 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
416 pages
13h 50m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from DNS on Windows Server 2003, 3rd Edition

Where in the World Do I Fit?

If your organization is attached to the Internet outside of the United States, you first need to decide whether you’d rather request a subdomain of one of the generic top-level domains, such as com, net, and org, or a subdomain of your country’s top-level domain. The generic top-level domains aren’t exclusively for U.S. organizations. If your company is a multi- or transnational company that doesn’t fit in any one country’s top-level domain, or if you’d simply prefer a generic top-level to your country’s top-level domain, you’re welcome to register in one. If you choose this route, skip to “The generic top-level domains” later in this chapter.

If you opt for a subdomain under your country’s top level, you should check whether your country’s top-level domain is registered and, if it is, what kind of structure it has. Consult our list of the current top-level domains (Appendix C) if you’re not sure what the name of your country’s top-level domain would be.

Some countries’ top-level domains, such as New Zealand’s nz, Australia’s au, and the United Kingdom’s uk, are divided organizationally into second-level domains. The names of their second-level domains, such as co or com for commercial entities, reflect organizational affiliation. Others, like France’s fr domain and Denmark’s dk domain, are divided into a multitude of subdomains managed by individual universities and companies, such as the University of St. Etienne’s domain, univ-st-etienne.fr, and ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Windows Server 70-741: Networking with Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 70-741: Networking with Windows Server 2016

Andrew Warren
Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 - Second Edition

Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 - Second Edition

Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak
Exam Ref MD-100: Windows 10, First Edition

Exam Ref MD-100: Windows 10, First Edition

Andrew Bettany, Andrew Warren

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596005628Supplemental ContentErrata Page