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Pat McCormick wrote
Re: Non .COM .ORG .NET Name Server Question
From: KJ
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999
Time: 12:32:00 pm
>I don't know what reasons exist for requiring extensions on domain names.
>
It tells the root servers where to go next.
Root-->.com-->.yourdomain-->your host
>Why aren't users able to associate any 7-bit ASCII string of any length,
>with an IP address. The period separates domains and subdomains, but a
>trailing .COM, .EDU, .WHATEVER, seems unnecessary.
Because the root servers have to know where the nameservers for the next
level are at. Root knows to point to the 13 or so servers that handle the
US domains, .com, .org, .edu, .net
If you made up a new top-level domain, you would have to register it in
the root, not internic. Eventually that would grow so big they would have
to establish a root over that.
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