.name
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| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | 2001 |
| Headquarters: | 21345 Ridgetop Circle Dulles Virginia 20166 |
| Website: | www.verisigninc.com |
| Key People | |
| D. James Bidzos,Executive Chairman Mark D. McLaughlin, Pres. & CEO | |
.name is a generic top level domain name in the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the internet. It is designed to provide a name space for individuals who uses their names, nicknames, or screen names to promote their blogs, websites, profession or business using their personal and unique identity as a brand. Verisign is the registry operator of .name.[1]
Background
In 1985, Dr. Jon Postel and Joyce Reynolds issued RFC 920 [2] which described the deployment the original top level domains (TLDs) which include .com (commercial0, .gov (governement), .edu (education), .mil. (military), .org (organization) and the .arpa intended for the transition of the ARPA-internet. The two-letter (alpha-2) country codes were also delegated under the ISO-3166-1 list. [3] In 1988, the .net and .int were added to the root zone of the DNS.
The over-all structure and delegation of the DNS was described by Dr. Postel in 1994 through RFC 1591[4] wherein the seven original TLDs ( .com, .edu. .mil, .gov, .org, .net and .int) are called generic top level domain names (gTLDs) and the alpha-2 country codes. The .mil was restricted for the use of United States military and the .org was also originally restricted to be used by U.S. government agencies. The management and coordination of the entire DNS of the internet is handled by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.