Web addresses ?????

[SPARKI1]

I'm am needing some help to settle a disscusion we are having.

I can't seem to remeber who actually control's the releaese of top level domains and how do they have the authority to do so?

I assume you have to configure all the nodes and isp's to translate the www.*.tv (http://www.*.tv) in to a ip addresse but again who is responsible for this?

thank you in helping me com to a conclussion on this matter.

[desmocat]

www.iana.org (http://www.iana.org)

Spark, I think this organazation is responsible for domain releases. The U.S gov't did it for a while, but as the internet got bigger and bigger, they turned it over to a private organazation.

Alot of the top level providers have DNS services that list the new domains and what their IP addys are. Your local provider has a dns server(usually) that your machine uses when you dial in,and if it can't resolve an address to an IP, it will hand it off to the next higher dns server that it knows to try and get it resolved.

This continues until the addy and IP are resolved,or you will get an error saying that the page can't be reached.If you get an error because of a dns server being down, and you know the IP addy of the site you want, you can type it in dotted decimal format(xxx.xxx.xxx.xx) and you should be able to get to the page if indeed it was a DNS problem that was causing you trouble.

The reason for this is you dont need a DNS lookup when entering numbers and it can bypass the dns servers. Hope this helps..MP