Episode 4
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Well, it's much more comfortable than I imagined...
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...What do you do when they recommend 'room temperature' for certain drinks?
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Sorry! I am looking for dnsimple.com, do you know where I can find it?
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Now, that's a great question!
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The coordination of most top-level domains (TLDs) belong to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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The .COM TLD was one of the first created in 1985.And today, it is the largest TLD on the internet.
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Other type of TLDs include:1. Country code TLDs. Usually, their 2 letter ISO code.
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2. Internationalized country code TLDs.
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3. Generic TLDs: .NET, .ORG, .EDU, etc...Usually, TLDs with 3 or more letters.
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4. Infrastructure TLDs: .ARPA, mostly used for reverse DNS lookups.The opposite of what we are doing now.We are doing this:Reverse DNS does this:
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And today, many new generic TLDs are being created!
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Now, back to your question resolver!
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I am afraid I don't know the IP address for dnsimple.com
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But I have found the name servers!
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Great! I'll store that information for later
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The .COM found the authoritative name servers for the domain dnsimple.com.
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But what do these names mean?We'll find out very soon...
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So the journey continues...