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Anything related to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) organization, i.e. the organization that coordinates the management of various global Internet resources and parameters such as DNS top level domains.

Anything related to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) organization, i.e. the organization that coordinates the management of various global Internet resources and parameters such as DNS top level domains.

See official ICANN website and especially ICANN's welcome page.

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non-latin email address validation

Now that ICann is allowing non-latin-character domain names, should I be concerned about e-mail validation? Currently, my sites are using php functions to ensure some alpha-numeric character set in each segment of an email address. Will these…
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Do I need to register ports as "in-use" with ICANN?

The application I'm currently working on requires three ports to be opened. At the moment these are 5024 through 5026 but on reading around I discovered that these lie in the ICANN registered range (i.e. ports < 49151). Is there any need for me to…
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What is ICANN domain status: 'clientTransferProhibited'?

I checked the Domain Status of some domains (using ICANN and one was Active, whereas the other was clientTransferProhibited. i.e. Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited and Domain Status: Active What are the practical effects of setting the…
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symlinked hosts file ignored by OS X; dev domains redirect to 127.0.53.53

I'm aware that various domains are now redirected to 127.0.53.53 by ICANN to alert people to potential current/future name collisions. However, I assumed any entries in my hosts file, for, for example, a development site running on Vagrant using a…
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Can a TLD operator (not registrar) maliciously change the DNS resolution of a domain with that TLD?

Say a company successfully applied to IANA to make .bob a Top-level domain and the company now operates the registry of every domain with .bob as the TLD. If the comany is under an authoritarian government with a track record of manipulating the…
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The domain name I want is in "clienthold"; am I likely to be able to get this name?

Before I begin, I guess this may not be strictly programming related but I think it's definitely related to web programming. I'm after a domain for a startup project and I notice that it is currently on "clientHold" registrar status. From the…
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Update nameservers while transferring a domain

I am trying to change the nameservers for a domain that is being transferred to another register. The process takes between 5 to 7 days. The former domain register is refusing to update the nameservers while the transfer is taking place. I searched…
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Where do services like http://whoisxmlapi.com get their data?

http://whoisxmlapi.com provides a high-throughput API for thick WHOIS queries. In my understanding such data can only be provided by domain registrars that put really low limits on the number of queries per minute. Had this data just been carefully…
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How does this URL has something before www?

I've never seen that before! How's does that works? I know ICANN now allows custom domain names, but it's before www! I've tried to add another www before welcome and it returned 404.
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AWS Route 53 Email Verification stuck due to (stupidly) using the domain as the registrar contact email

As mentioned in the title. I have a domain that I transferred to aws Route 53. I bought the domain during a university hackathon and hastily used the domain in the registrar email. (e.g. domain = example.com, registrar email =…
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ICANN Name Collision & Chrome

Half a year ago I installed XAMPP on my Computer with a few virtualhosts ending with ".dev". When I now try to open those websites in Chrome it gives me the error ICANN Name Collision. After some research I found out that im not the only one with…
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Domain names assigned with IP

I have a doubt on how domain names are assigned to IP address. According to ICANN evey domain will be assigned to IP address which will be globally accessed. Lets say there are 3 different domains hosted on 1 reseller account…
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Domain pointing to wrong site

Twice in this past year or so, I have encountered a domain name behavior that I haven't seen since I started working with websites in 1997. The behavior is that the domain is going to another site that is totally irrelevant to the site owner. In…
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How to find out a Domian Registrant Contact

There is a website using domain name similar to my business domain, However, he is tricking people by have restaurant website and let people transfer money to him online. However, How could I know the domain owner to file a police report where he is…
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How to make DNS accessible to public

So I configured an authoritative name server after reading pages after pages of text regarding the standards of the server and its security. Question is how do I make my server accessible to the public such that they don't need to add my name server…
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