ffs... .tech, .mp3 .xxx?

MiCr0

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ie we use our own dns that no one else in the world will be able to use
this is nearly as bad as an esb computer

smoke.me.a.kipper

this kinda like those http2 address'

you used to be able to get an address like

http2//www.yoursite.com or
http2//ciaran

for free.

this gone now. it actually worked without changing your browser too.

i can't find it anymore though.

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MiCr0

its all just dns games
u could set dns up so
http://www.bubblesdonkey.porno -> any ip u wanted

its just a matter of the records. and your dns server would have to be the globally accepted master for .porno

Shiminay

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by MiCr0:
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HAAHAAHAA!!! Nice one Davey boy!

Until such a time as it's standard, I wouldn't even consider it. It's a nice idea, but a silly one.

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Tharg

What's the story with addresses like:

www2.whatever.com

dahamsta

www2 is just a hostname. Your domain registrar delegates authority for your domain name - whatever.com - to you, so you have control over everything under that. As an example, say you have more than one server but you want to use the same domain for consistency.

In that case, you would assign a hostname to each server, and associate each hostname with an IP address in your DNS records. Then when someone requests a hostname, their browser does a DNS lookup and associates it with the correct IP address, and you get the right content for that hostname.

Anyone with a domain name and control over their DNS can set up any hostname they want (within RFC guidlines). What's more, you can delegate authority under your domain name to someone else if you wish, and they'll be able to do the same. So if you have whatever.com, you could delegate like.whatever.com to someone else, and they'd have control over that.

And it continues like that, with the authority for like.whatever.com being able to either set up domains under that hostname, or delegate authority to someone else further down the chain, for say, its.like.whatever.com. The process is bolstered by something called named-based virtual hosting, which is when multiple sites can be hosted on the same IP address, based on the name the client (browser) requests. But now I'm rambling.

www2, www3, www4 and other hostnames like that are commonly used on load-balanced servers and sites, where the sites are particularly busy and the hits need to be distributed over multiple servers. When a request is made to one of the hosts, it can either handle it or pass it off to another server on the network which isn't so busy. Sites like Yahoo! and Google operate this way, but they hide it by rewriting the URL transparently in your browser.

HTH,
adam