Top Level Domains
Currently, OpenNIC supports the following TLDs:
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- .bbs
- aimed toward (Telnet-style) bulletin board systems and related Web sites.
- .dyn
- dynamic IPs.
- .free
- operated by FreeNIC, the .free tld provides namespace, certificate authority, and other services to encourage the non-commercial use of the internet.
- .fur
- furry fandom-related sites.
- .geek
- chartered for use by geek-oriented sites, including anything of a personal or hobbyist nature. This description is deliberately vague to reflect the huge range of interests that might qualify.
- .opennic.glue
- internal architectural, as in root server administration and peering purposes. The only domain names that exist for this TLD are those that are used for each system on the peer.
- .gopher
- sites using the Gopher protocol.
- .indy
- independent news, media, and entertainment.
- .ing
- fun TLD. Further details to be confirmed.
- .micro
- micronations and their entities. Recent and not widely used yet.
- .neo
- emo subculture with influences of technology, music, and other forms of multimedia.
- .null
- miscellaneous non-commercial individual sites.
- .oss
- open-source software.
- .oz
- Australian-related content, without the residency requirements of .au.
- .parody
- venue for non-commercial parody work. Having a TLD designated to works of parody attempts to remove claims that a website could be mistaken for a business site, and thus reduces the possibility of claims of trademark infringement.
- .pirate
- created as a reaction against internet censorship.
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Famous quotes containing the words top, level and/or domains:
“I can’t forget
How she stood at the top of that long marble stair
Amazed, and then with a sleepy pirouette
Went dancing slowly down to the fountain-quieted square;”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“For him nor deep nor hill there is,
But all’s one level plain he hunts for flowers.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)
“I shall be a benefactor if I conquer some realms from the night, if I report to the gazettes anything transpiring about us at that season worthy of their attention,—if I can show men that there is some beauty awake while they are asleep,—if I add to the domains of poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)