I've removed the country codes from this page because I didn't see any reason to have them repeated in a second place, especially with the countries not linked. If they should be on this page instead, perhaps we should simply cut and paste the other page's info from the "edit text" box into this one. :-) --
Koyaanis Qatsi
Someone wrote that the TLD is the name after the last dot. That is not true. If you write out the domain name in full, there is no name after the last dot. In full, 'www.wikipedia.com' is really 'www.wikipedia.com.' However, in almost all circumstances you can omit the final dot, so people normally do. (However, IIRC, if you were on host 'don.black.com.', and there existed a host 'www.wikipedia.com.black.com.', then 'www.wikipedia.com' would resolve to that host, not 'www.wikipedia.com.') --
SJK
Could you explain what you mean here? The grammar in RFC 952 does not allow a final dot on the end of a hostname. In what cases are you saying that the dot is allowed? --Zundark, 2001 Nov 10
Well, to be honest I've never actually read the RFC. Since the root domain is '.', I just presumed that to be fully qualified the domain would need to mention the root domain as well. Otherwise how do you distinguish between the two examples I gave? (I know that using only part of the domain to reach hosts whose domain you are in works in at least some cases: I used to do it frequently...) And nslookup has no problem accepting domains with a '.' on the end... Nor does Netscape... --
SJK
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