GeoTLD - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

A GeoTLD is a generic top-level domain

Generic top-level domain

A generic top-level domain is one of the categories of top-level domains maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet....

in the Domain Name System

Domain name system

The Domain Name System is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities...

of the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

using the name of or invoking an association with a geographical

Human geography

Human geography is one of the two major sub-fields of the discipline of geography. Human geography is the study of the world, its people, communities, and cultures. Human geography differs from physical geography mainly in that it has a greater focus on studying human activities and is more...

, geopolitical, ethnic, linguistic or cultural community.

Only two examples of geographic TLDs exist in the domains .asia.asia .asia is a sponsored top-level domain sponsored by the DotAsia Organization, with the back-end registry operated by Afilias. It was approved by ICANN on 19 October 2006 as a sponsored TLD... (for Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

) and .cat.cat .cat is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language and culture. Its policy has been developed by ICANN and Fundació puntCAT..., which is a sponsored top-level domain

Propositions

Examples of proposed top-level domain

Proposed top-level domain

The Domain Name System of the Internet consists of a set of top-level domains which constitute the root domain of the hierarchical name space and database. In the growth of the Internet, it became desirable to expand the set of initially six generic top-level domains in 1984. As a result new...

s in this category are:

.αθήνα (Athens)
.berlin.berlin .berlin is a proposed new top level domain . It is a Sponsored top-level domain intended to be a top level domain for Berliners.According to the dotBERLIN organization .berlin will allow all Berliners to register their domains under .berlin... for the city of Berlin, Germany
.wien.wien .wien is a proposed new top level domain . It is a Sponsored top-level domain intended to be a top level domain for individuals, companies and organizations from Vienna, Austria.... for the city of Vienna, Austria
.bcn.bcn .bcn is a proposed top-level domain for the city of Barcelona, Spain.... (city of Barcelona)
.bzh.bzh .bzh is a proposed Internet top level domain. It is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be a top level domain for the Breton culture and languages.-History:... (Breton community)
.cym.cym .cym is a top-level domain that might be eventually be assigned to the Cayman Islands. The primary top-level domain used by the Cayman Islands is .ky. The Islands already have the international three letter code, CYM... (Welsh community)
.eus.eus .eus is a proposed top-level domain for Basque language. In 2008 dotCYMRU, dotEUS, dotSCOT and dotBZH formed ECLID.... (Basque Language
Basque language
Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...

))
.gal (Galician language
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...

)
.lat.lat .lat is a proposed Internet generic top-level domain for Latin American communities and users wherever they may reside.Recently NIC México along with eCOM-LAC were appointed official sponsors for this campaign... (Latin America)
.africa.africa .africa is a proposed Internet generic top-level domain for the African and Pan African communities and users wherever they may reside. The .africa TLD will serve as regional domain for individuals and entities based in the Africa region interested in expressing a Pan African identity or outlook... (African and Pan African communities)
.scot (Scots community)
.上海 (Shanghai)

Internationalized country codes

An internationalized country code

Internationalized country code

An internationalized country code top-level domain is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet...

is similar to a GeoTLD, with two differences: it is a domain used exclusively for a sovereign state. The other difference is that an internationalized country code is considered a ccTLD and not a GeoTLD.

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.