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Can I create a top level TLD? (.michael for instance)

It appears that ICANN is allowing the creation of top level domains. Instead of 'registering' a domain, you would essentially be signing up to be a registrar (you'd be giving out registrations on your TLD). How do they decide whether to…
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Can you have an email address with only the top level domain as the domain part?

The question title pretty much contains the question by itself, but as an example: Instead of having an address like bob@example.com(where example is the sub-domain of the TLD com) could you have have an email address like sky@net, where the domain…
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DNS just started resolving my server.prod addresses to 127.0.53.53

I have servers named like server.prod.example.com, and I regularly log into them as server.prod. Recently, these hostnames started resolving to 127.0.53.53. It turns out that ICANN recently enabled the .prod TLD. In addition, every request that…
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If I own a domain do I own all of its sub domains?

If I own a domain do I own all of its sub domains? For example if I purchase example.com, do I automatically own mail.example.com, blog.example.com, etc? If I do not own the sub domains, can anyone buy mail.example.com if I own example.com? Do I…
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List of top-level domains (TLDs) that require HTTPS connections, like .dev

I know the .dev top-level domain requires all sites to support only encrypted HTTPS connections, disallowing any HTTP connections. Are there other such TLDs?
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How can I find the WHOIS server for any TLD?

I'm looking for a reliable and up-to-date list of WHOIS Servers to use in a whois script. Since the list changes frequently, it'd be nice if there were a resource I could refer to rather than having to update the script frequently.
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Will I lose my .fr second-level domain once I am no longer a resident of Europe?

Hopefully this question is appropriate here. The .fr TLD stands for France and is managed by AFNIC. In order to register for second-level domains under this TLD, one is required to be a resident of the European Econonic Area. I am currently a…
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How do you register a domain without a TLD?

So I found this website that is visitable and does not have a TLD? Anyone got any idea how to do this?
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Verify that a name server is registered at a TLD registry

Let's say I own the domain name example.com. It is registered at registrar R. In my account at R, I registered the following name servers for the .TLD registry: ns1.example.com --> 192.0.2.1 ns2.example.com --> 192.0.2.2 Let's say there are no…
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How to run own gTLD on my DNS server?

My organization shelled out for a gTLD, and we currently use 3rd party (Verisign) to host it on their DNS servers. However, there are 2 issues: we pay quite a bit for that yearly (that's the lesser issue); updating data there is... convoluted (also…
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Is it possible to change the postfix message-id?

Is it possible to change the message-id in postfix? If I send Mails over an Java-Application I get the following message-id: message-id=<143303043.111334605578921.JavaMail.applicationanme@hostname> So I want that the message-id looks like this:…
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We don't own our Custom TLD domain name and that is our local domain name

I currently started working for a company that has made a boneheaded mistake and I am looking for the least painful way to correct it. Before I started, they named their local domain using a TLD they did not register. For the purpose of this…
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No IPv6 & DNSSEC support on cc-TLD? (practical implications)

I'm needing to register some domains that have country code domain extensions, but noticed that those TLDs do not officially support (A) IPv6 or (B) DNSSEC... What limitations or pitfalls should I expect to run into because of this? (A) No IPv6…
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How many domain levels are there?

.com,.us are TLD,top level domain, and co.uk are SLD,second level domain. Are there "third level domain, fourth level domain" and so on? How many different TLDs and SLDs are out there?
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Is TLD .local not a local TLD anymore?

I used to use .local as TLD for small household networks however I got a popup that I wasn't allowed to use it anymore after a firmware upgrade of an Asus Router. I choose now for .lan as internal TLD. Apart from MS Technet / MS best practice /…
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