Hello Peter, > > Let's imagine grasping the concept is not a difficult one; > > - .au.com is a top level domain. Actually ".au.com" is a second level domain, as is ".com.au". They are at equivalent levels of the domain name hierarchy, > > - .com is a top level domain. Agreed. > > - one may purchase abc.com and they are purchasing a "top level > domain" abc.com is a second level domain. abc.au.com and abc.com.au are both third level domains. > > - one 'cannot' purchase au.com as it is owned by Mr Bloch. Well strictly speaking domains are not "owned". Mr Bloch has a licence to operate the domain "au.com" until 2 Oct 2009. He will have the right to renew this domain for another period up to 10 years, and so on. He may create any domains below "au.com", in the same way as the licence holder for abc.com can also register third level domains. ".au" was delegated to Mr Robert Elz. Mr Elz created the second level domain ".com.au" for an indefinite period. Mr Elz transferred the responsibility for ".com.au" to auDA. Domains are permitted to be registered within ".com.au" for a fixed period of two years. > > Reference: > http://www.au.com/about.html#whatisaucom > There are many 'top level domains', such as .au.com, .com, .org, > .co.nz, .edu.au, .net.au, all of which signify different things - for > example, .edu.au would be the domain ending for an educational > institution in Australia.au.com is an international address, but > located within Australia Strictly speaking this would be better stated as: "There are many domains within which the public may register subdomains, such as ..... .au.com, .co.nz, .edu.au, .net.au are second level domains .com, .org, .au are top level domains. Regards, Bruce Tonkin -- This article is not to be reproduced or quoted beyond this forum without express permission of the author. 331 subscribers. Archived at http://listmaster.iinet.net.au/list/dns (user: dns, pass: dns) Email "unsubscribe" to dns-request§auda.org.au to be removed.Received on Wed Sep 26 2001 - 00:00:21 UTC
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