1. Fortunately humans get an easier system to remember-the domain name system that makes up site addresses. 2. Bind was created by some University of California at Berkeley graduate students, also on a government contract, to expand the domain name system to handle more hosts. 3. Despite these uncertainties, the new addresses are already appearing online, along with a growing number of alternatives that exist outside the official domain name system. 4. Icann will consider adding extensions to the official domain name system. 5. One wrinkle that could upset the carefully designed rollout of new extensions for Internet Web addresses is competition from efforts that exist outside the main domain name system. 6. The domain name system works like a big White Pages, but with an important difference. 7. The government, he explained, believes that the task of running the domain name system can better be handled by the private sector. 8. The problem with all of this is that the dot-com explosion has turned the domain name system on its head. 9. The particular proposal that contained .sucks came from Name.Space, a New York company that operates an alternative internet domain system. 10. They called this database the domain name system, since it arranged all the computers on the Net into categories called domains. |