Re: DNS and CL&F

The TLD (top level domain) is .ca and the registered domain is gc, the  
others are subdomains. Only the owner of the domain can register a  
subdomain to that domain as lookups go from the TLD to the domain and  
then to the subdomain.

Quoting Andy Civil <[email protected]>:

> 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
>
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