Questions tagged [tld]
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How long it takes for domain registrar to update TLD name servers
We accidentally changed the nameserver settings for our example.be.
The changes were rolled back within minutes. So nameservers were set to the previous ones, provided by One.com. After 16 hours, our website still not working. But are worried that…
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Why isn't the root domain also a name server?
I was trying to understand the inner workings of DNS.
To clarify things, when I say the root domain I mean the root domain without a name.
So when I type http://www.example.info, it will check the top-level domain .INFO and find out which IP example…
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Help with top-level domain understand
I have a uni assignment question that I am having trouble trying to google...
I have been asked to provide 3 lists (i only need a handful of countries for each list) of examples of countries which:
Like Australia (.au) echo the gTLD's (.com, .net,…
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Intermittent DNS failures
We have intermittent DNS failures. Upon troubleshooting we found from our server, (where the domain is pointed to) gives connection timeout when queried against few TLD ns.
Ex: dig domain @tldns (Connection timed out;; no servers can be…
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How does ESPN control espn.go.com without controlling go.com
How does ESPN control the domain espn.go.com if they don't control the tld of go.com. How is this possible?
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What does a domain registrar do?
What does a domain registrar actually do? As in, do they facilitate you registering your domain name with the registry? Do they host your domain?
I downloaded a couple of top-level-domain zones, they're just a list of NS records.
So my question is,…
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Why do nameservers have their own names?
For example, lets say there is a hosting company, hostingcompany.com, with nameserver ns1.hostingcompany.com. When I type hostingcompany.com into my browser, my computer contacts a top level .com domain nameserver, which in turn contacts the name…
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Setup BIND to transfer the zone file for every Second Level domain for a gTLD?
Is it possible to have BIND transfer all the second level domains for a single TLD to my local machine? (I'm fully aware that this would be a massive data set)
Also, how do I track changes on a daily basis?
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How to claim a url that has not been taken?
I have a little bit of knowledge on hosting apache web servers running php using linux, and I do not want to buy a DNS from anyone, is it possible to claim an unused domain such as http://asdeygxzbuhdqewrfducyh.com/? And if so, how?
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