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Yahoo's Computers and Internet Domain Name Registration
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers and Internet/Internet/Domain Name Registration/-+
Top Level Domains TLDs /Registry Operators/International Country Codes/
The Least You Need to Know about IPs and
Domains
The Regional Internet Registries (aka NICs) are
responsible solely for IP address allocation and
registration (usually to Local Internet Registries or
very large ISPs).
All five NICs (ARIN, APNIC, AfriNIC, lACNIC, and
RIPE) maintain databases that contain formatted
information about all IP addresses they have
allocated or assigned, including those IP addresses
its regional registries have authority to assign. You
can look up an IP number-but not a domain-at
a NIC.
"local" registries (usually operating at country
level, e.g., DENIC for Germany) register domain
names and, in many cases, also allocate IP
addresses.
Domain name registration for the .com, .org., .net,
.biz, .info, etc. TLDs has become a wide-open
commercial enterprise. Anyone anywhere can
register these TLDs.
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