Re: DNS and CL&F
Andy Civil <[email protected]>
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On 11-06-13 09:31 PM, James wrote: > I've been reading the common look and feel directives for government of > Canada websites. > How does cybersquatting apply to the register of gc.ca? > I always thought it would be impossible to register boo.gc.ca if someone > else has registered gc.ca. > It was my understanding that domain names are hierarchical, such that any Internet installation "knows" the list of root servers http://www.internic.net/zones/named.cache which represent "." and these servers supply the address of "ca" (run by CIRA, I assume; the trailing "." for root is omitted by convention) and "ca" supplies the address of "gc.ca" and so on. So registering "boo.gc.ca" would require an agreement with the owner of "gc.ca" for the practical reason that it will be the computer at gc.ca which dictates where boo.gc.ca is. IMHO -- Andy -- OCLUG general discussion list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug