syco Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 How did dot.tk make their own type of domain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synook Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 According to their site Dot TK is a joint venture of the Government of Tokelau, a country in the South Pacific, the countries communication company Teletok and BV Dot TK, a privately held company. The Government of Tokelau has appointed BV Dot TK as the exclusive registration entity. BV Dot TK is doing business as the Dot TK Registry.So basically they work with the country that owns the .tk domain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syco Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 how do you make a new domain like that? its cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synook Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 how do you make a new domain like that? its cool.You don't (can't). When the domain name system was invented all countries got a unique domain name. Tuvalu got .tk. However, since Tuvalu isn't a popular place to host internet sites that name has been sitting around, so the government of Tuvalu decided to make it available for a service such as Dot TK provides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Html Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 You'd have to write a letter or something to Icann?But then again, Tim Lee said no to more domain name extensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synook Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Well they made .tel and .asia recently (2007)... but you'd need some significant backing and sponsorship before they'd let your application be considered. ICANN (not the W3C) controls TLDs (top level domain names) so Tim Berners-Lee doesn't really have final say in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.