Information on Domain Name Registry

All domain names are registered in a database called the domain name registry. These domain names are changed into IP addresses by zone files that are generated by a registry operator which will keep the database of the domain names. These registry operators, or network information centers, are organizations that handle the registration of the names and control the policies.

Registries may, for instance, have a policy to reject applications or cancel existing domain names when they detect obscene contents. They may also choose which companies or organizations will be allocated names based on biases of political, religious, cultural or other such dimensions. But if not for these, the acceptance of applications is based on who submitted first. The price of domain names may also vary depending on the registry.

Disagreements on domain names are resolved according to different methods depending on the policy subscribed to by the domain name registry. There are those which have their own resolution method, those who follow homogenous policies among registries, while there are those which resolve such matters through civil courts.

The selling of domain names may be done directly by the name registry or through smaller commercial establishments. These may actually be made in wholesale -wherein an entire dot extension is owned by the client – or by retail. There are also different levels of domain systems that are sold. Second-level domains, for instance, may sub-sell under their registry.

These can be seen in the dot extensions within the IP addresses wherein the before the final dot entry are several other dot partitions – example, while not existent would be future.st.int – the main owner of the registry would be .int which allows sub-registration and thus the .st after the chosen domain name, future, of the client. Sub-registrations may go as far as four levels.

These domain names are administered by a system headed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority which also assigns domain name authorities to specific website name registries. A domain name registry may be government departments, non-profit organizations or commercial institutions. Domain name servers then can market domain names through website name servers. You can check out more facts at http://domain-name-registry.org/.