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There's so many Stack Overflow sites. Pardon me if this is posted on the wrong site.

I got to thinking, and started wondering what's stopping somebody from running a custom DNS. Sure, not many would use it, but those who did would be able to register .whatever domain names. Theoretically if I wanted to accomplish this what steps would I need to take?

My ideal setup would allow me to easily setup custom root domains, but also access the rest of the real internet (when utilizing the DNS). So I could visit name.whatever, but still be able to visit google.com if necessary.

Dalton Edwards
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  • There was some concern a few years back that China would start doing exactly that, and that there was enough anti-ICANN (i.e., US) sentiment that countries would adopt those root servers. http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/u-s-surrendering-control-internet/ Internally to your own network, you can run DNS with whatever TLDs you want or need. – Rick Buford Jul 16 '15 at 22:11

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Nothing technical is stopping you, and quite a few people do exactly what you're thinking of. There is even a Wikipedia page about it.

Calle Dybedahl
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