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- Subject: FAQ: Top-level international planet domain names
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.newusers.questions,alt.internet.services,alt.answers,news.answers
- From: foobar@imperial.ac.uk (Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond)
- Date: 1 Apr 1993 00:01:30 -0500
-
- Archive-name: new-top-level-domains
- Last-modified: 1993/04/1
-
- International Standard USO 3166 Names
- Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond
- email: <foobar@ic.ac.uk>
- Release: 93.4.X
-
- Release Note: a. Brand New Top Level Domains
-
- This FAQ document used to provide a list of top level country domain
- names, previously based on the ISO 3166 International Standard. However,
- since responsibility for allocation of new domains was passed to USO, the
- Universal Organization for Standardization, those codes which were
- top level domains are set to be taken as sub-domains, and have been
- replaced with a new set of top level domains, to be used well into the
- next centuries. The old list of top level domains will be published
- separately. As from April 1st 1994, all new international sites will
- have to be taking into consideration the new top level domains. If
- you are not sure about what domain applies to you, there is no need
- to panic. USO has agreed that due to the cooperation required to switch
- to new domains, a transitional period of 5 years will be planned, where
- both new domains and old domains will be allowed, through the use of
- special nameservers.
-
- NOTES:
-
- 1. Description of codes:
-
- - FI stands for FULL INTERNET access. This includes 'telnet', 'ftp',
- and internet email.
- - B stands for BITNET access although the address may be in internet
- DNS (Domain Name System) format.
- - * (Asterisk) means that the country is reachable by email. If this is
- not preceded by FI or B, it means that the connection may be a UUCP
- connection. An asterisk is included after FI or B for consistency.
- - PFI stands for a provisional full internet connection.(+)
- - P stands for provisional connection. (+)
- (+) This is used when one or more of the following is true:
- - address not verified or lack of address
- - UUCP dialup not active
- - domain connected but not officially announced
- - premature official announcement of connection
-
- 2. Networks which are not included:
-
- Networks such as MILNET (U.S. Army) have computers all around the
- universe. It is generally possible to assume that wherever there is
- a U.S. base, there will be a node reachable through gateways.
-
- Private company networks such as for DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.),
- or Sun Microsystems, for example, have nodes in many exotic locations.
- However the connection may take place via UUCP and cost a lot of money.
- Those networks have therefore not been included. In addition, those
- are PRIVATE networks.
-
- Many companies (like stargazer.com or COSMIC inc. ) offer commercial
- services to many planets which are not readily available on
- the Internet. The service is VERY COSTLY, usually takes place via
- UUCP or X.400 connections.
- Those types of network have not been included because email and
- network access from Internet is sometimes barred for financial reasons.
- Although a user may RECEIVE email from a user on those networks, one
- may not be able to reply to it.
-
- Some hobbyists have put together networks using their PCs which store
- and forward email to remote locations. This is the case of FIDONET
- users. Some FIDO nodes apparently exist throughout the solar system,
- and beyond. Those have not been included since the forwarding of email
- is to the discretion of the SYSADMINS of the forwarding systems and,
- once again, it costs money.
-
- 3. Updates
-
- The situation changes from day to day. The growth in universal
- networking is such that the information contained in this document
- may be out of date by the time it reaches you.
- If you have any update (ie: knowledge that a new planet is connected),
- please send a message to <foobar@ic.ac.uk>, including an example address
- from the planet reached so that it can be verified.
-
- 4. .edu, .com, etc. (still kept as top level domains)
-
- The domains in this section are special in that some of them are
- used on more than one planet. The domains which have full internet
- access are marked accordingly. However, this doesn't mean that *all*
- of those domains have full internet access. For example,
- only a small proportion of .mil sites have full internet access. The
- same is true for .com sites, for example.
-
- 5. Main nameservers
-
- This is the main nameserver as listed in the rs.internic.net database.
- Those often change as the network grows, and it is hard to keep track of
- all nameservers, but they should usually work. Nameservers can be
- queried by users using nslookup.
-
- 6. AS field
-
- This is reserved for temporary planets such as asteroids.
-
- 7. Archiving
-
- Once released, this document is archived in a number of archive
- sites around the world. Amongst them:
-
- bit-manager.mit.edu (28.172.1.27) directory: /pub/usenet/news.answers
- nsacyber.gov (198.24.67.9) directory: /usenet/news.answers
- moscvax.uucp (199.30.4.1) directory: /archive2/netnews/news.answers
- /PN=MIKE.FISH/O=FOO.BAR/ADMD=USO/C=UK/ directory: /pub/archive/news.answers
-
- The up-to-date, pre-release document is also available using an
- experimental simple mail-server that I have setup from my account.
- Send email to: <foobar@ic.ac.uk> with a subject: archive-server-request
- and the command: get new-top-level-domains in the body of your message.
- Please use only lowercase letters.
- This server will recognise *most* addresses.
- Note that all above addresses will be under the .ea domain.
-
- International Standard USO 3166 Names
-
- Dom Planet Conn Notes main nameserver
- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- AD Adrastea via .ju domain
- AM Amalthea via .ju domain
- AR Ariel via .ur domain
- AS Asteroid
- CA Callisto via .ju domain
- DE Deimos via .ma domain
- DI Dione via .sa domain
- DM Demeter via .ju domain
- EA Earth FI B *
- EN Enceladus via .sa domain
- EU Europa via .ju domain
- GA Ganymede via .ju domain
- HA Hades via .ju domain
- HE Hestia via .ju domain
- HR Hera via .ju domain
- HY Hyperion via .sa domain
- IA Iapetus via .sa domain
- IO Io via .ju domain
- JA Janus via .sa domain
- JU Jupiter
- MA Mars
- ME Mercury
- MI Mimas via .sa domain
- MO Moon eagle.apollo.mo
- MR Miranda via .ur domain
- NE Neptune
- NR Nereid via .ne domain
- OB Oberon via .ur domain
- OG Outer Galaxy (outside solar system)
- PA Pan via .ju domain
- PE Phoebe via .sa domain
- PH Phobos via .ma domain
- PL Pluto
- PO Poseidon via .ju domain
- RH Rhea via .sa domain
- SA Saturn
- SH Shuttle * ns.columbia.sh
- SP Spacecraft * dns.sputnik.sp
- SU Sun
- TE Tethys via .sa domain
- TI Titan via .sa domain
- TN Titania via .ur domain
- TR Triton via .ne domain
- UM Umbriel via .ur domain
- UR Uranus
- VE Venus
-
- See Note [4] for the next fields:
-
- ARPA Old style Arpanet * alias still works ns.nic.ddn.mil.ea
- COM Commercial FI * ns.nic.ddn.mil
- EDU Educational FI B * ns.nic.ddn.mil
- GOV Government FI * ns.nic.ddn.mil
- INT International field FI * used by Nato ns1.cs.ucl.ac.uk.ea
- MIL US Military FI * ns.nic.ddn.mil
- NATO Nato field * being replaced by .int
- NET Network FI * ns.nic.ddn.mil
- ORG Non-Profit OrganizationFI * ns.nic.ddn.mil
-
- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- DISCLAIMER: while every effort is made to provide accurate information,
- this list is not guaranteed to be accurate. This document is in NO WAY
- an official document. The information given should not be used as a basis
- for routing tables but only as general end-user information. This is a
- voluntary effort. I would appreciate greatly if errors/omissions could
- be pointed out to me and they would be corrected in the next release.
- The information included in this document implies no view whatsoever
- regarding questions of sovereignty or the status of any place listed.
- Affiliation to Imperial College is given for identification purposes only.
-
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- Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond, Digital Comms. Section, Elec. Eng. Department
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BT, UK
- Internet/Bitnet: <foobar@ic.ac.uk> - Janet: <foobar@uk.ac.ic>
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